Word: adroitness
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...lovely, intense young woman who married an old and impoverished aristocrat of a small Middle West town. It showed how utterly impossible became her life; it told what she did about it. All this the picture does, and only half the heroine comes to life. Despite an exceptionally adroit performance by Irene Rich, the film is feeble...
...obliged by rule either to make a run or be put out within any given number of bowls. His prime function is to prevent the ball from striking his wicket. Interminable defensive play ("stonewalling") is thus possible-as it would be in baseball if a batter were adroit enough to foul safely off an indefinite number of pitches...
This book is the Epilog to the Biography of which each of his novels, he insists, is a chapter. The Prolog, it will be recalled, was Beyond Life. Mr. Cabell's adroit pen and urbane intelligence have lost none of their skill in the years intervening between the two volumes...
...were greedy for power over my fellowmen I would rather control Muscle Shoals than to be continuously elected President of the United States, and in the nature of the case nobody can now be wise enough to foresee or adroit enough to forestall all the ways in which the private control of this immense power source will be prejudicial to the general public interest and profitable to a private interest...
Sitting Pretty. A musical comedy by Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Jerome Kern. Its chief concern is to rouse interest in a millionaire who has unwittingly adopted a young crook and who wants to marry him off to a hand-picked mate. The lyrics, smooth, adroit, prettily rhymed and easily audible, are its only saving grace. Queenie Smith, with her 48 inches of saucy gaminerie, is the biggest asset. She dances like a sunbeam, stopping the show, whenever she gets in motion. Her acute low comedy sense almost twists most of her lines into a laugh. Frank Mclntyre, aside from...