Word: adroitness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cinematic shorthand. The significance to England of Queen Victoria's death becomes apparent from an incident in the Marryots' kitchen; a shot of a life-preserver-lettered S. S. Titanic-ends, with an abrupt full-stop, the story of Edward Marryot and his bride. Of an adroit British cast which includes Herbert Mundin, Beryl Mercer, John Warburton, Frank Lawton and four child actors, Diana Wynyard gives the most noteworthy characterization...
...picture deserves inspection for the fun of watching adroit impersonations by the male members of the cast. Leslie Howard is Tom Collier. In response to a comment on the cold weather, he says, "I think we'd better bring the brass monkeys indoors tonight," so smoothly that the Hays organization allowed the line to stay. William Gargan is Collier's ex-pugilist butler. Funniest scene is when Gargan, drunk, tries to get up courage to resign while Collier tries to get up courage to discharge him. Mr. Rothafel selected The Animal Kingdom as the first attraction...
...When the football teams of two old and large American universities play each other in such an atmosphere as was evidenced over the last weekend, silence on the part of the college journals is indicative either of supreme callousness or supreme dullness. For no one had to be particularly adroit to realize that there was evident animosity displayed within the Harvard Stadium last Saturday...
...certainty. 73rd Speakership- Such a prospect gives added importance to the present House session where already a heated Democratic campaign is in progress for the Speakership of the 73rd Congress. The wise eyes of Washington are fixed less upon the routine legislation of this session than upon the adroit pulling and hauling of candidates for Speaker. The Democrat who casts the longest shadow in the 72nd House is most likely to rule over the 73rd. Candidates- Exclusive of ambitious upstarts, three eminent Representatives are in the race-Tennessee's Joseph Wellington Byrns, cadaverous chairman of the Appropriations Committee; Alabama...
...think, teaches Warner football better than Wizard Warner), has an amazingly complicated attack, based not on power but on a multiplicity of spinners, reverses, lateral passes. Colgate's most noticeable linemen are Captain Bob ("Kewpie") Smith, a 172-lb. left guard and Left End Anderson, a graceful and adroit pass-catcher who often finds four men assigned to keep him under cover. Quarterback Charlie Soleau has huge thick legs which have this season enabled him to average an 11-yd. gain per play. Colgate statistics for the season: 99 first downs to opponents...