Word: adroitness
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Claudia (20th Century-Fox) furnishes dozens of adroit excuses for laughing about a U.S. character as typical and beloved as the Mickeys (Rooney and Mouse)-the Child Wife, Suburban Style...
...Priestley's novel is not about the factory or the mechanical miracles which materialize in planes. It is about the people who make the planes-their lives, thoughts and hopes. With adroit skill he takes the reader about the plant, from office to assembly line, from drill press to canteen, relating a life history here, sketching a vignette there, until some 50 faces have become recognizable people and the novel's main motifs are weaving the mild suspense which makes Priestley so easy to read...
Tall, bespectacled Brendan Bracken, whose hair looks like a pinkish bird's nest, last week met some 100 members of the U.S. press in Manhattan, played an adroit game of ask-me-another. Said...
...fame in Robert Wiene's bizarre fantasy, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Other weirdies, like The Hands of Mr. Orlac, followed. Women fainted, men screamed, children chortled when they were shown. By 1926, when Veidt went to Hollywood, audiences had got hold of themselves pretty well, but his adroit villainy was always good for a hiss...
...record, in a battle of economies uncharted in previous U.S. history, was brilliant. His first job was to provide raw materials. With a speculator's foresight, he bought up a supply of toluol (for TNT) before the Army was fully aware of its importance. By adroit bluffing, he got the Chilean Government to help knock the price of nitrates from 7½? to 4⅛? a lb. He got jute from India at his price by threatening to withhold the silver shipments that stabilized India's rupee. He got iron ore from Sweden, wangled mules from Spain...