Word: adroitness
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...self-made" Canadian, he sought the power. Through adroit propaganda in England which reverberated in Canada he was appointed "Canadian Observer" in the theatre of World War. Thereafter his dynamic shrewdness as a commercial intrigant enabled him to break into the newspaper trust amid the War upheaval and established him upon his present eminence...
Illustrations for Poe, illustrations for Oscar Wilde, illustrations for the Yellow Book-marvelously adroit and facile pen and inks. "Salome," epicene and sleepy, the "Woman In the Moon," "Venus" in a modern gown, Pierrots, Sapphos, gigolos, whatnots. None of Beardsley's more obscene drawings are part of the sale...
...game. Brown played three games with the same eleven men. The Army-Navy game (above) set a new record for attendance. New York University had the best team in its history, a team that might even be called "championship" if it had not lost to Nebraska. Lafayette, fast and adroit, was not beaten by any of the teams on its not-too-formidable list. The Navy -all in all perhaps the best team in the U. S.-had the hardest schedule: Purdue, Princeton, Colgate, Michigan, Georgetown and the Army...
Sympathy is due Mr. Tunney why should he be prevented from capitalizing his fame? Others have had no trouble in performing in front of footlights--and many were less adroit boxers than Gene. There is, of course, a law, but there are manifold ways, of avoiding it: wearing evening clothes over boxing tights is one method, and Mr. Tunney found that constant use has dulled its aptitude. Doubtless he will new get a more supple lawyer, one versed in such acrobatics as getting away with an improper thing in a perfectly proper manner. But in the interim there...
...that its buff cover conspicuously enough displayed would protect an unattended female anywhere in the world." The new governors of other magazines have done no less. The scarlet of Harper's may enclose as many and as vitriolic shafts directed against complacency as the verdant boards of the less adroit Mercury...