Word: adroit
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...home front he was rapidly becoming assistant president, with a clear hand to smooth ruffled party tempers, to compromise and persuade in Congress, to figure out where the Administration had got off track with public opinion. If the New Deal party could be cured of its sickness through adroit poulticing, Jimmy Byrnes was the ideal physician...
...CASE OF THE CARELESS KITTEN- Erie Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). Another brisk, shrewdly plotted and forthrightly told Perry Mason story, in which the adroit lawyer-sleuth cooperates with an intelligent and wary police lieutenant. Mason's analysis of feline antics supplies the payoff clue to an elusive killer and a pair of carefully contrived murders...
...ORCHIDS-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nero Wolfe and his ebullient amanuensis Archie Goodwin are here at top form in two "novellas" -"Black Orchids" and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death." The first concerns a cleverly contrived murder at New York's annual Flower Show. The second features an adroit bit of poisoning in the fantastic Riverdale ménage- and menagerie-of a successful party-arranger for Manhattan society. First-class entertainment...
...filthy, bewhiskered, bedraggled old codger with five nondescript dogs and an oath to buy a gold candlestick to St. Francis, who once said to him: "Be good to dogs, you dirty man." He keeps his oath by hoarding "1,000 two-bitses," and in the process delivers as adroit and winning a performance as Hollywood has produced all season...
...program, but except for an occasional late broadcast by some good orchestra, there's hardly anything interesting. If you can't drop off to sleep before two o'clock, however, there is something to be heard almost every night. Within the past two weeks, for instance, I have, through adroit manipulation of the dials, found Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Jay McShaun, not to mention some people called the Six Korn Kobblers who had a good muted trumpet in their midst...