Word: adroitness
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...frumpy clothes (Lucille Watson) who speaks a pure nightclub patois and gets tipsy. There is the joke about flowers with celebrated names planted in the same bed. Some one even gets a chance to remark that Adolf Hitler is "all swelled up with no place to burst." But with adroit acting, shrewd direction, ingratiating sets, the whole comes out a packet of high entertainment...
...entire English language Press with an interview obtained by Russian-speaking Yale Professor Jerome Davis from Stalin who had previously been interviewed only by a German and a Japanese. Walter Duranty, who had then been six years in Moscow, waited four more years until United Pressman Eugene Lyons made adroit use of world reports of Stalin's death to wangle his way into the Dictator's presence and get an interview over the head of the Soviet Foreign Office. A few days later the flustered Foreign Office at last showed patient Walter Duranty into the office of Dictator...
...phrase." This ideal, which implies a drastic cleavage between style and content, is shared by most of his contemporaries. They are all experts with a scalpel, and most of them are eager that their art should be popular; the combination of function and desire calls for an adroit but unobtrusive style...
Niccolo Machiavelli, adroit but by no means omniscient diplomat of Florence, has really given himself an undeservedly bad name, says Author Roeder. In his famed book. The Prince, cynical guide to the arts of governing, Machiavelli "preached what he deplored, and professed what he could not practise." A hero worshipper, he set Caesar Borgia on a pedestal. When his hero proved to be no man of iron, Machiavelli's disillusionment was lifelong...
...reflection of this greater uncertainly in the West. The small nations southeast of Vienna consequently vacillate timidly between France and Italy with the shadow of Russia ominously towering in the background. Their own particular bones of contention, such as the Macedonian question, they have temporarily buried, while by adroit guesswork they try to pick the side which will come out on top in the next struggle for power. The star of France is in the ascendant now, but the eventual balance will depend on whether the nations wish to preserve the status quo. When the alliances thus to be formed...