Word: adroitness
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...most able leaders that the labor movement has yet produced, shrewd, adroit, resourceful, a dangerous opponent either at the bargaining table or on the industrial field of battle...
...some quarters the decision is called a victory for Secretary of State Hughes, who was supposed to be opposed to increasing the angle of the guns because it might lead to diplomatic difficulties. From a political standpoint, at least, the move is very adroit, because it relieves the Administration of any grounds for an accusation that it had obtained an appropriation under false pretenses-an accusation which there is already evidence that certain Congressmen would make. Now Congress must decide the question at its next session...
Zander the Great. Salisbury Field, author of Zander the Great, is one of the most graceful writers of drawing-room comedy. He is, .in a way, the American A. A. Milne. An adroit describer of familiar and unfamiliar types in the upper and middle circles of American life, he can always be depended upon to be amusing...
...enviable record of artistic achievement. ROMEO AND JULIET-Next to Hamlet the longest run a Shakespearean play has enjoyed in America in the current century. Superbly acted by Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters. MERTON OF THE MOVIES - The pathos of hokum. Glenn Hunter in Harry Leon Wilson's adroit satire on the eighth art, adapted for the stage by Marc Connolly and George S. Kaufman. The movie industry amusingly " shown up " from supers to Will Hays. RAIN-A brilliant tract against militant Christianity in the South Seas. Jeanne Eagels as the attractive, hard-boiled demimondaine. U. S. Marines, real...
...finally there is that massive cerebral imperialist, Johannes Jensen. He is as Danish as Oehlenschlager himself; but he takes his Denmark with him wherever he goes. He is vehemently modern, fiercely adroit, lofty in exaltation, merciless in displeasure. He detests Memphis, Tenn...