Word: adroitness
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...Roosevelt political magic was still at work-adroit and fluent as ever, he somehow managed to make Federal spending merely a matter of building schools, and to link free education with his administration in untroubled defiance of the shades of Noah Webster and Horace Mann. This was as effective an answer as he had yet made to Wendell Willkie's charge that a continuation of New Deal policies meant a new economic system in the U. S. -but it was an answer, and it was effective...
Richelieu was one of the most cunning, adroit, far-seeing and resourceful minds in political history. First test of any great politician is to hoist himself into position where he can control the steering wheel of state at the decisive moments. Half of Richelieu's political lifetime was spent in getting behind the wheel. He got there first by attaching himself to the fat, sly, greedy, frightened Florentine, Marie de Medici, widow of Henri IV. She reigned for her 15-year-old son, Louis XIII, whom she used to spank publicly to the delight of the tittering court...
Written and directed by Playwright Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable), The Great McGinty is shrewd, salty, adroit. It is also an actor's dream. Brian Donlevy makes the dream come true. Son of an Irish whiskey distiller who moved to the U. S. before the war, Brian Donlevy was bred to arms at St. John's Military Academy in Delafield, Wis. He carried on as a bugler with General Pershing's 1916 expedition to Mexico (where he says he developed his barrel chest), flew with the Lafayette Escadrille in France. After that he modeled for Arrow Collars, worked...
Importance of Paris to the U. S. dress business has been partly synthetic, partly real. Manhattan's fashion world has plenty of adroit and imaginative designers of its own - some (like Bergdorf Goodman's Ethel Frankau, Saks Fifth Avenue's Sophie Gimbel) custom designers of exclusive models; others (like Nettie Rosenstein, Germaine Monteil) adapters of style to the mass-produced items that have made the average U. S. woman the best-dressed average woman in the world. But the U. S. dress business, from Fifth Avenue to Seventh, is atomic, leaderless, cutthroat, jealous of itself. Its genius...
...clear that "R. S." and his old friend Hans Zinsser (Rats, Lice and History-TIME, Feb. 11, 1935) are one and the same man. Thanks to this adroit device, Dr. Zinsser eats, has and hands out whatever cake he pleases. As R. S. he shoots off his mouth to his heart's content...