Word: adroit
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Kaufman & Hart's idea of a theatrical Remembrance of Things Past was bright: even the hard-boiled feel tender toward the theatre of their youth. But the adroit humorists of Once in a Lifetime and You Can't Take It With You hopelessly lost their way on such a sentimental journey...
...Instead of the old style Negro lobbyist content to work behind the scenes, U.S. Negroes now have a Washington representative as bold, adroit and effective as any of the white breed. He is Secretary Walter Francis White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Last January the blacks' Mr. White sat in the Senate visitors' gallery, where Southern members indignantly pointed at him during debate on the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Lobbyist White claimed to have bagged enough votes to get the bill passed, but a hastily organized Southern filibuster kept it from...
With Defense Attorney Stryker, Dixie was so pert and adroit that Justice Ferdinand Pecora warned him repeatedly...
...Politics. The then Acting Secretary of War was amiable, politically adroit Harry Woodring, ex-Governor of Kansas and ex-State Commander of the Legion. He was in the War Department partly because he was an Original Roosevelt Man in 1932, partly because the Legion had by then taken unofficial title to the job of Assistant Secretaryship. If the White House did not rate Mr. Woodring a first-class administrator, the army in 1933 was in the doldrums anyway, was no great administrative problem. Even when Harry Woodring became involved in a messy procurement scandal with Army Goods Dealer Joseph Silverman...
...that Capra is now the cinema's outstanding director does not imply that he is tops in all respects. As they acquire prestige, directors acquire specialties. Capra's is a certain kind of peculiarly American, peculiarly kinetic humor, in which the most individual characteristic is an extraordinarily adroit and constant use of "business" to accent the comic line. Unlike Gregory La Cava (Stage Door) or Leo McCarey, whose The Awful Truth took top honors for direction at the Academy this year, Capra has no interest in jokes whose appeal is touched with neuroticism. He is sufficiently versatile...