Word: adroitness
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Hollywood knew Paul Bern as an adroit and skilful cinema craftsman. Associate producers generally are not credited for their work, but he was considered largely responsible for MGM's Grand Hotel. Paul Bern came to the U. S. from Germany when he was nine. Educated in Manhattan public schools, he studied further at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, became a theatrical director, went to Hollywood to write scenarios. His work on The Marriage Circle, The Christian, The Dove caused him to be made an executive. In a community founded upon the assumption that to be blatant...
With an alphabet board under his arm and adroit publicity before him, Shri Sadguru Meher Baba, Parsee "God Man," arrived in the U. S. last May (TIME, May 2). Though long-haired, silky-mustached Meher Baba indicated he had spoken no word for nearly seven years, he was willing to be interviewed by pointing to his little board, and to be photographed while doing it. Not every one was aware that this was not the God Man's first arrival in the U. S. Last December he quietly terminated an unpublicized stayin Harmon, N. Y., returned unostentatiously to India...
...later played a shady part in the Harding regime and wrote an audacious book about it, said Judge James M. Proctor: "The verdict reveals that the defendant capitalized not only on the sweetest and tenderest emotions of the human heart, but also on the basest in his clever and adroit plan. The Lindbergh case brought out all the best in the hearts of men, but also gave the opportunity to some to display the weakness and wickedness of human nature...
...Chaney in 1919. Now, remade as a talkie, it is an anomalous parable, more confusing than inspiring. Certain vicious characters led by a wretched John Madison (Chester Morris) find an old faith-healer (Hobart Bosworth) practicing his innocent seances in a sea-coast village. They form an adroit plan to exploit his doddering abilities. First they procure a knowing minx (Sylvia Sidney) to take care of the faith-healer. Then they have a contortionist named "Froggy" (John Wray) drag himself about on his haunches and unwrap when the faith-healer looks at heaven. To their dismay, the faith-healer works...
Unlike the Rangers, the Maple Leafs depend on speed and power, not on clever hockey and adroit passes. In Toronto, needing one game more to end the series, the Maple Leafs quickly piled up five goals. Only one Ranger shot, by Frank Boucher, got past Lome Chabot, who used to be goalie for the Rangers. In the last period, Boucher was busy again. He passed to Bun Cook for one goal, made two more himself in less than two minutes. By this time it was too late. The Maple Leafs stopped protecting their lead long enough to score one more...