Word: adroitness
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...fashion for gumshoes who, when they encounter corpses, malefactors and degenerates, enjoy a manic period of which wisecracks are the symptoms, started with The Thin Man. The Case of the Curious Bride is a less adroit, less original picture but the speed of Michael Curtiz' direction manages to create somewhat the same mixture of tension and amusement. Warren William, fast becoming Hollywood's No.1 exponent of deductive reasoning, is aided enormously by Claire Dodd in her first cinema performance as a nice girl...
...never walk down there," the experienced bottom-saunterer continued. "I shove myself around on my stomach in ever widening circles--my technique would shame the most adroit pollywog. The clouds of mud I stir up make using a light about as useful as trying to shine it through a thick London fog. You can't see anything and if you're not careful to keep your suit full of air, you will squash up into your helmet...
...least of adroit Joseph Stalin's feats is to sit year after year on the lid of the World's No. 2 famine...
...Abyssinia's Great Editor last week that His Majesty turned out an able, world-copyrighted declaration to United Press. The adroit lead sentence: "I am anxious to carry out the recent Geneva agreement as quickly as possible...
...Democratic President has ever had a better Republican Press than Franklin D. Roosevelt during his 23 months in office. By his adroit management he has kept most White House newshawks fluttering happily in the benevolent aura of his smile, if not actually feeding out of his hand. And through these contented correspondents he has kept most editors and editorial writers back in the home offices in conditions varying from hoarse enthusiasm to quiet neutrality...