Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's best amateur. Said Jake later: "The audience was down close and I could feel them pulling for me. They rooted me in." He beat Riggs 3-6, 7-5, 6-2. It wasn't a matter of getting wise to Bobby's cagey game, he said, because he always plays his own strength rather than an opponent's weakness. But he did give Riggs credit for one thing: "Bobby is able to adjust himself to bad conditions better than I am . . . especially poor lighting...
Gregory Peck turns in the first performance that may trouble his well-wishers. Although he has worked exceedingly hard to become an Englishman (he studied a recording of an Anthony Eden speech), he remains unmistakably American in appearance and bearing. A tremendously cagey and accomplished actor might conceivably have made a convincing character out of this attorney, in spite of the inadequacies of the script. Peck is not yet cagey or accomplished enough. He carries his trial scenes with considerable style; and he comes close to some first-rate acting in his difficult crack-up scene. But his lawyer...
...school does not like this arrangement because it makes the task of placing its students in colleges difficult. In addition, public schools find themselves at a disadvantage in competition with private schools, which usually maintain cagey strategists on their staff occupied primarily with getting the boys into college. The admissions boards see the problem from the other side. Harvard, to take an example, has been faced with three to four satisfactory applicants for each one it could accept during the last few years. It must choose between them on some basis, and finds the choice system as good...
...fine place to live in, but the principals who live there are not plausible enough to deserve the privilege. Once in a while Greer Garson demonstrates that a good actress is jailed inside all the suffocating wax that the studio has molded around her. Newcomer Richard Hart makes a cagey, personable deceiver. Robert Mitchum tries a Gallic gesture now & then but most of the time he just looks sleepy. No audience will blame him much for that...
Michigan's cagey Coach Fritz Crisler was weary of denying that his boys were twice as fast and slicker than a riverboat gambler. To newsmen he confessed sarcastically: "Sure, everyone's a star around here." A few days later, with bands blaring and the first hint of autumn in the air, Crisler's boys took poor Michigan State apart...