Word: adroitness
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...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...
...Ambassador to France last week, when suddenly he became Foreign Minister. Mr. Sato is emphatically a civilian, whereas the point of view of General-Premier Senjuro Hayashi's new "Gold Braid Cabinet" is extremely militarist (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.), but the new Foreign Minister quickly made an adroit move. His civilian predecessors at the Foreign Office have tried to attend to their job as though the Japanese Cabinet was like any other co-operative Cabinet- whereas under the Japanese Constitution the exalted positions of the Cabinet Ministers, especially those of the War Minister and Navy Minister, give them...
...rumors rumbled that the German Government has chosen Coronation week as the time to invade Czechoslovakia and seize those few of its provinces in which citizens of German blood unquestionably predominate. In knowing European circles these rumors were considered "propaganda-in-reverse"-a British attempt to repeat the supremely adroit French move which recently kept the Reichswehr out of Morocco (TIME, Jan. 18). In that case the French Cabinet circulated to the world press the deliberate lie that German forces had already landed at Ceuta, whereas the French Secret Service knew they only planned to do so. Exposed in advance...
...subjects are Hindus, it was discreet in 1902 to appoint a Hindu Prime Minister, the Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad Bahadur who was still nourishing last week. Living nowadays in semiretirement, Hindu Sir Kishen leaves the business of running Hyderabad largely to Mohammedan Sir Akbar Hydari, several of whose adroit coups have jolted Islam as well as the British...
...document, however, was not equal to the punch in Franklin Roosevelt's voice as he read his message to a press conference an hour before it was delivered to Congress and the Supreme Court. He beamed at newshawks with evident exuberance. He fairly smacked his lips over his adroit phrasing, revealing to the Press by intonation and ironic interjection his exhilaration over the most daring stroke he had yet attempted: his long-awaited blow to break the deadlock between the New Deal and the Supreme Court...