Word: adroitness
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...like wine tonight, the castle menage, an enchanting crew of Italian peasants, bustle on the scene. It is a real pleasure to watch them become completely disrupted over the performance of a sinister English rite-the hot bath. Moments like this are heightened by handsome sets and adroit low-key photography. But alas, the story creaks back to the laborious business of restoring Miss Harding to the arms of her repentant husband...
...England listeners with bootleg sets are caught and forced to pay their tax by an adroit ruse. Science has evolved no means of detecting a listening set, but Scotland Yard has evolved a van full of impressive looking gadgets. This vehicle rumbles about, stopping here & there at random. "Our detector indicates that perhaps you have a wireless," a courteous bobby tells an English householder who is paying no tax. "May we inspect your premises?" Premises are inspected until sooner or later a bootleg receiver is found, and Scotland Yard scores again with its purely psychological detector...
...prevent overconfidence and to dishearten and weaken its rivals, Minnesota has adopted the stratagem of giving the ball to its opponents during the first half by consistently kicking on second down. Not until the second half does the Bierman team open up with its prodigious line drives, cunning spinners, adroit passes. This style of play calls for teamwork by titans, and Coach Bierman has a squad full of them. His three ace rushers are Captain Pug Lund, who was playing his final game in the home stadium last week; Julius Alfonse, who has averaged 10 yd. every time...
...Ambassador's three daughters have all married into the Service?Lilla to J. Pierrepont Moffat, now the Department's expert on Disarmament and adroit head of the State Department's Western European division; Elizabeth to Cecil Lyon, Third Secretary at Peiping; Anita to Robert English, Third Secretary at Budapest. It was Mrs. English who swam the Bosporus while her father was Ambassador to Turkey. He fed her chocolate from a boat and played a phonograph to help her rhythm...
...went bustling from group to group trying to patch the quarrel between M. Barthou and the British. Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary with whom M. Barthou came to verbal blows fortnight ago, had gone back to London, leaving at Geneva Captain Anthony Eden, the Empire's young, adroit conciliator and "Traveling Salesman of Peace...