Word: adroitness
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...result is not so form-fitting as her last made-to-order picture (The Philadelphia Story), but it is an adroit and amusing comedy, with an appetizing dash of social satire...
Edna Ferber is more adroit. Her Creole heroine, Clio Dulaine, is not only beautiful, but hard, in the manner of Scarlett O'Hara and other cut-rate Becky Sharps. Clio takes up with Gambler Clint Maroon: "He was magnificent, he was vast, he was beautiful, he was crude, he was rough, he was untamed, he was Texas." He was also a gambler, but Clio soon seduced him into larger ambitions...
...bill was only one phase of Governor Edison's adroit assault. Edison is well aware that a large part of Hague's power lies in control of New Jersey judges. The Governor showed his hand, a week after he took office, by appointing Republican Frederic R. Colie to the Supreme Bench. Hague's reaction: an hour of abuse and threats screamed into the Governor's ear by telephone from the Boss's winter den on Biscayne...
Ruling the 16 millions of France's North African Empire (only one million of whom are French) with a steadily dwindling French Army is trying even for the adroit General. The Moslem natives, subject to a ceaseless barrage of German propaganda, have been grumbling under the British blockade that deprives them of sugar for their much-loved sweetened mint...
...original production (1934) in Hartford, Conn., people actually wept at the Cellophane scenery, the lovely costumes, the adroit stage business, and Harlem Negroes singing Miss Stein's screwball words about St. Therese, St. Ignatius, some 30 other saints. Last week the audience controlled itself better...