Word: deft
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...deft and tender handling of a difficult unusual situation, read "The New Romance." Mr. Kister has taken elemental facts, arrayed them cleverly, brooded over them with mature intent Sometimes his style is incredibly young,--or is he dramatizing the youth of this gay if serious adventure...
...assumed the Illustrated is glad Major Flynn remains with the R. O. T. C. It gives the Major the front page for a picture, the editorial page for a bouquet and the only other page of prose for an interview. The editorial is a deft piece of work. It tells Major Flynn how glad, we are that he's here in a quaint but poignant fashion...
...grunts, Bennett at the same time combined a certain finesse of gesture with a lightness of touch that rivaled even Nijinsky, the famous Russian cheer leader. I have seen the Michigan leader, apparently boxed by substitutes on the side lines, leap high into the air and with a deft gesture of the index finger draw from his cheering section a perfect salvo, sometimes two salvi, of applause. I have seen him handle the Michigan "locomotive," a clumsy oratorio at best, with a deftness of forearm movement and an utter absence of physical effort which transformed it into a veritable octavo...
...contrast to these flights of youthful imagination is Mr. Thayer's pleasant description of that unpleasant experience which he considerately veils in continental alias, "Le Mal de Mer." As the inherent delicacy of the title would indicate, the treatment is deft and restrained, it is the psychological rather than the physical symptoms on which the author dwells...
Neither of the stories is calculated to disturb the regularity of one's breathing; and yet each has deft touches of characterization. Mr. Davis's sketch of the professional female smuggler glimpses the tedium of a life of pretense in Parisian society. Mr. Rogers's description of editorial ethics on a juvenile newspaper, in spite of its hampering style, gives some amusing aspects of boy nature...