Word: adroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story itself is as simple as starvation, as insanely complicated as law. Neither man has any legal right to existence; both of them insist on existing anyhow. Josef Steiner is hard and adroit: by cheating at cards he earns the thin security of a dead Austrian's doctored passport, works in a Viennese amusement park until Anschluss drives him to Paris. For young Ludwig Kern life is tougher: no papers, no such talent for moneymaking, an incautious enough heart to fall in love and travel with young Jewish Ruth Holland. Peddling toilet water (illegally) they move from Vienna...
...Manhattan novelist who has a paramour in her publisher's office. Unfortunately her old friend and sister authoress, Peggy Wood, has a young daughter who takes the paramour's eye and eventually his heart. In three acts full of adroit handkerchief work Cowl runs a gamut of politely contained emotions and achieves resignation in the end-with the help of old acquaintance. At one point, where she snuffles back her tears, she brings off a little masterpiece of nasal dramatics. Meanwhile Peggy Wood has given a witty picture of a blonde, bird-brained, overdressed, likeable soul...
...soldiers." The prayer also included a pointed reference to Saint Conrad of Parzham, a Bavarian monk whom Pope Pius XI canonized in 1934 as an example of deep humility as opposed to Naziism's "racial pride which is neither Christian nor human." In Munster, the massive, adroit bishop, Count Clemens August von Galen, instead of telling his diocese to pray for victory, ordered daily recitation of the prayer: "Lord, grant us peace! Queen of Heaven, pray...
...dejectedly out at the future. Temptation in Tonopah showed a tough-looking croupier, a composite of all the gambling-house characters in the capacious memory of Painter Martin, who is good at crap shooting. Out at Home, a baseball scene, one of the best in the show, was an adroit pattern of such vitality that it seemed to arrest action better than a 1,000th-of-a-second camera shutter could have done...
...Roosevelt political magic was still at work-adroit and fluent as ever, he somehow managed to make Federal spending merely a matter of building schools, and to link free education with his administration in untroubled defiance of the shades of Noah Webster and Horace Mann. This was as effective an answer as he had yet made to Wendell Willkie's charge that a continuation of New Deal policies meant a new economic system in the U. S. -but it was an answer, and it was effective...