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Word: adroitly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the family tradition, dapper, adroit "Russ" Forgan of Glore, Forgan & Co.-whose career at Princeton (Class of 1922) set a new high for social grace and near-professional virtuosity as leading man of the Triangle Club (musical comedies)-started in at commercial banking. He was a vice president of Chicago's National Bank of the Republic when he shifted to securities by joining Messrs. Field & Glore in 1931. He now heads the Manhattan office, while Partner Glore runs the Chicago office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Forgan for Field | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

Gordon and Revel songs, amiable dialog by a trio of ace screen writers, adroit direction by William Seiter and effortless acting by a sophisticated cast give Stowaway a quality recent Temple pictures have lacked, of simple, unself-conscious charm. Good shot: Randall and valet, having failed to sing Shirley Temple to sleep, nodding when she croons Good Night, My Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Christmas Waifs | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...case, the Young Marshal had rocked Eastern Asia by starting last week either a war between China and Japan or a much bigger civil war than has raged in China for some years. The famed "Christian Marshal," Feng Yu-hsiang, who ranks as China's most benevolent and adroit double-crosser, could hardly wait to get in on whatever was taking place at Sian. "I will fly thither at once," roared the Christian Marshal, "and offer myself as a hostage to the Young Marshal for the safety of the Generalissimo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictator Kidnapped | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...machine of which J. Stalin is the Great Engineer. From now on Communist organs will call this Democracy. An audacious touch in Moscow last week was for Intourist guides to tell visiting foreigners: "Our new Constitution is a million times more Democratic than any other!" The new and adroit Communist Constitution, indeed, almost entitled J. Stalin to rank with the immortal H. Dumpty of Through the Looking-Glass who boasted, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Just Too Bad | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Love on the Run (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Sally (Joan Crawford) is a fabulously rich U. S. heiress engaged to Igor (Ivan Lebedeff), fabulously torpid European fortune hunter. She leaves him waiting at the church to run off with Michael (Clark Gable), fabulously adroit U. S. reporter. After junketing in Europe by airplane, delivery truck and wheelbarrow, they spend a night in the palace at Fontainebleau. Michael then tells Sally simultaneously that 1) he loves her and 2) he has been using their escapade to make headlines in the U. S. Sally takes up with Michael's gullible rival reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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