Word: adroitness
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...Feng Adroit. Super-Tuchun Feng, the so-called "Christian protector of Peking," resorted to a typical Chinese strategy last week in his campaign against General Li, the Governor of Chihli Province, whom he has been besieging at Tientsin (TIME, Dec. 28. et ante...
...outworn cult of secret diplomacy. He still employs all its stock phrases, catch-subterfuges which seldom deceive a rabbit-for example, he never "goes on a mission" but "travels for his health." Yet when cornered and pressed for categorical answers to specific questions he speaks with the adroit tongue of a sibyl or a Machiavelli. Last week he arrived at Paris as expected (TIME, Dec. 7), and the Olympian game of interrogating him was resumed by correspondents, with the following results...
...crumbling of the eternal Sphinx is a catastrophe of would-wide concern. Should the attempt of the Egyptian government to repair the monster prove unavailing, the superiority complex of man must suffer. He will be forced to adroit that an alliance of vagrant winds and inanimate sand has defeated...
...Late in the week, at 4:30 a. m. Mr. Neil McLean, Clydeside Laborite fire-eater, attempted to delay debate in the Commons by in- terjecting a motion calling for a secret session of the House-the first since the War period. Adroit, the Tories refused to heckle over the point, passed the motion in a flash, effectively cut Mr. McLean off from the public audience which he delights to entertain...
MORE CHANGES, MORE CHANCES- H. W. Nevinson - Harcourt, Brace ($5). Memoirs of an English newspaper correspondent, who championed many an under dog with such adroit charm that he won the unstinted praise of so exacting an editor as the late H. W. Massingham...