Word: deft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cocktail," a beverage of smoky, tingling undertaste-and bland, stimulating potency. It is said that M. Hennessy conceived the "Ponce de Leon" as a shrewd means of booming "***" above English or Dutch gin as a favorite cocktail ingredient. Today one may step up to any smart bar and obtain deft action by exclaiming "A Ponce!" Strangely enough Jean Hennessy swears that he has never tasted one. Wet by profession, he is socially and privately dry. In 1910 he became a Deputy, in 1924 Ambassador to Switzerland and recently Minister of Agriculture...
...Tuttle got together on a story, or rather that story about the Parisian who is so tired of women that he is expressing his weariness in an epigrammatic speech when-what do you think?-a beautiful pair of legs goes by. The pursuit, tailored with a good deal of deft comic detail, leads in and out of bedrooms and round and round a jealous husband until, at Kathryn Carver's request, a waiter removes a pot of flowers to expose, on the other side of the table, the lovelorn face of Mr. Menjou. At this point you are conscious...
Said Owner Tucker: "Boys, there is the greatest pilot you ever saw!" Whereupon he returned to the Yankee Doodle to salvage yet a third conqueror of the airs above the continent It was none other than the ship's mascot?a "hot dog" skillfully converted by the deft use of toothpicks for legs and tail and a ribbon about the neck into an esthetic complement...
First prize ($1,500 & gold medal) went to André Derain, a French modernist. His picture was a still-life of two dead game birds on a table, with a rifle beside them. Composition and brush work are sure; technique is deft...
Parson Faunce's hobbies are: Chinese students, of whom Brown's campus has a plethora; football, of which he knows nothing, but loyally supports; freshman teas, where gangling first year men stand awkward, watching Mrs. W. H. P. F. pour Chinese tea with deft, graceful hands; money-raising, of which he is past master, successful with everybody but Brown Graduate John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who has given Brown but one small building and but half of that. Tycoon Rockefeller would not give the money except with the proviso that the edifice bear his name. So Rockefeller Hall, undergraduate meeting place...