Word: deft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward of Wales, a deft amateur cartoonist, had caught to the life the sombre frock-coated figure of the Chancellor, characteristically enlivened by the fact that he had thrust his large thumbs into the armholes of his waistcoat and expanded his chest with the confidence of a pouter pigeon. Finally Cartoonist Wales had sketched in heroic proportions the glass containing a refreshing beverage-said by some to be whiskey & soda-without which Chancellor Churchill seldom addresses the House at any length...
...Pasteur Institute and the French Government are generous patrons of renowned Dr. Serge Voronoff, the tall, deft Parisian surgeon who grafts fresh, invigorating glands into animals or men who seem to need them...
...honor system. They are subtly invited to consider, by the provisions of the reading periods, that they will not be expected to consider the periods just so much holiday, applying themselves to the reading lists only at the very end of the period and then under the deft ministrations of an expert hired tutor. When they are supposed to be reading about Laertes and the nebular hypothesis and Socratian argument they will be expected to be doing so, not keeping social engagements in Boston or playing squash and hand ball...
...Negro union of Pullman porters, newsgatherers made haste to inquire if the twinkling twelve in Chicago were the first recruits of a force of Orientals whom the Pullman Co. might be mobilizing to dissolve a unique racial monopoly. Pullman officers "scouted" the notion; declared that Orientals, while deft as club car waiters, lack the physique required in a luggage-lugging, berth-boosting, window-opening Pullman porter...
...flight of a young man to Mexico City lost none of its pristine glamour, last week; but from his lone, receding plane the deft hand of U. S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow conjured an achievement in statecraft. Under his suave persuasion the President of Mexico embarked on a new policy of "peso diplomacy"-a policy which could scarcely have been launched had not Ambassador Morrow given Mexicans the emotional treat of "going Lindbergh...