Word: adroitly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical of Dr. Schacht's adroit manipulation is Germany's coffee trade with Brazil. Germany barters finished goods in exchange for Brazil's coffee beans. The beans, canned in Germany, are resold to small Central European countries for exchange and at lower prices than Brazil demands. This maneuver involves heavy losses to Germany and damages Brazil's market. But it puts much-needed foreign exchange into Dr. Schacht's hands, and incidentally increases the impressiveness of Germany's export trade...
...homework finds that he has attempted more than he can handle. Published last week in Philadelphia was a convenient 236-page treatise, Algebra for Parents* calculated to save elders considerable embarrassment when asked to explain anything from simple addition to the binomial theorem. It was as ingratiating, discursive, and adroit as its author, a 59-year-old Philadelphia lawyer named Samuel Bryan Scott...
Saratoga (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), written by Anita Loos & Robert Hopkins, is possibly Jean Harlow's best picture as well as her last. Glib, forthright, knowing and adroit, released last week to coincide with the opening of the 1937 season at New York's old spa, it investigates the lighter side of the serious sport of horse racing with as much good sense as good humor...
...been talking about ever since, however, is the behavior of the club's 25-year-old coach, honey-haired English Teacher Isabelle Hallin. An experienced summer trouper who spent three seasons with the Garrick Players at Kennebunkport, Me., Saugus-bred Miss Hallin wears attractive, form-fitting dresses, makes adroit use of cosmetics. Moreover, six Bishop rehearsals had been held in the cellar of her home. Were cigarets served? Cocktails? What happened...
...hotel owner's chief creditor and that she has been invited to live there because the proprietor of the hat shop (Franklin Pangborn) has spread the rumor that she is J. B. Ball's mistress. In Easy Living this situation serves under Mitchell Leisen's adroit direction as the framework for one of the season's silliest and most entertaining farces which reaches its climax when Mary Smith invades J. B. Ball's Broad Street office with three sheep dogs at the moment when he is trying to repair the damage caused...