Word: adroitness
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Less easily disposed of by M. Poincaré was an issue adroitly concocted by Socialists and Radicals. They pounced upon a budgetary bill which would permit the Government at its discretion to restore certain properties confiscated from the clergy under the great Secularization Bill of 1905, whereby the French church and state were separated. Loud demands were soon current that M. Poincaré must withdraw this measure, or the Socialists and Radicals would order the Ministers representing them in the present Sacred Union Cabinet (TIME. Aug. 2, 1926) to withdraw. Stung to action the Prime Minister confronted critics with...
...Admired by many an editor, but inaccessible because he draws only for the New York Times, is adroit Cartoonist Edwin Marcus. Only on Sundays does the fatherly Times condescend to publish "features." Cartoonist Marcus regularly does portraits for the theatrical section and cartoons on leading topics in season. He is one of the few living cartoonists who was born and raised in Manhattan. His most famed compositions were made during the War?"The Road to Yesterday" (War dragging Europe back to Barbarism) and "Damn the torpedoes?go ahead" (quoting Admiral Farragut at Mobile Bay). His "pals" are Cartoonist Cliff Sterrett...
However, in the gloaming, two whizzing cars can approach very near a crossroad without becoming aware of each other. Fortunately the Marshal's chauffeur is a talented swerver. He broke the force of the whizz-smash by a cool, adroit skid-swerve. When the man at the wheel turned around with blanched face to explain, he received from Marshal Pétain a little nod and a typical, paternal phrase of encouragement, "Bien fait, mon fils." ("Well done...
...last week by Brewer Busch when he beheld a current announcement from Anti-Saloon headquarters that the brewers of the U. S. were going to hold a "secret meeting" in behalf of Nominee Smith next month. Brewer Busch, posted on the plans of his industry, called the announcement "an adroit attempt to confuse the voters in the coming Presidential election...
...Adroit in arousing public sentiment, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney, M. P., builder in charge of the R-100, last week gave a tea party. Fifty guests, including several M. P.'s, mounted a staircase with mahogany balustrades, inspected a kitchen equipped with electric stoves, visited 39 sleeping cabins, each with a window and beds. Mrs. Burney, onetime Chicago debutante, was hostess...