Word: adroitness
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...long tour (nine months in the Antipodes) of Sir Laurence Olivier and his Lady, Vivian Leigh, came to an end at Tilbury Docks, with the most adroit curtain call of the week. The veteran troupers managed to impart a little of their own sure charm to what would otherwise have been a routine ship-news photograph...
...life an evil; but life and death simply are neither good nor evil in my eyes. Life is an opportunity or occasion for good and evil alike, and death is an insurance against both." If Santayana has a "system," it is hopelessly lost among the flourishes of such adroit naturalistic fencing...
...securely salted away, the big story was the selection of a Vice President. It began with a pre-convention meeting of party bosses in the White House, continued through innumerable secret and widely separated caucuses at the Chicago convention, involved the famed C.I.O. Political Action Committee (the P.A.C.), some adroit maneuvering on the convention floor and, especially, "Private Room H" under the convention platform, where the big bosses were busy putting over their choice...
Dalton's talk over the last few months had been loud, adroit, and full of discomfiture to the government. It was also skillfully aimed at the Labor Party gallery. At last month's Party conference at Scarborough, Dalton's "Keep Left" speeches had been well-received by rank & file delegates ; they elected him to the Party Executive by a whopping vote. For Laborites who thought that Cripps was going ahead too slowly with the Socialist revolution (or that the government was showing too much concern for middle-class and professional support in the 1950 elections), Dalton...
Timing & Histrionics. In St. Louis, where he packs them to the rafters, Wild Bill Longson demonstrates an experienced actor's adroit timing. Wild Bill knows exactly when a kick aimed at his opponent's groin will bring down an avalanche of hearty boos. His histrionic skill earns him $1,500 an appearance. Barrel-chested Yvon Robert (rhymes with snow bear) has done so well at playing hero in his home town that he is now co-owner in a profitable sideline: a fancy Montreal nightclub called El Morocco. Gargantuan Primo Camera has no particular gimmick...