Word: deft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale and Princeton also fell prey to the deft Crimson racquet-wielders, and the team, coached by Harry Cowles, can be said to have had a most successful season. A few players are now aiming for the Intercollegiates, although the entries are still uncertain...
Toward Geneva the train of French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval was chuffing. Day before this crass politician had been considerably surprised when his subordinate in Rome, deft and subtle Ambassador de Chambrun, managed to achieve a fairly satisfactory agreement with German Ambassador Ulrich von Hassell as to post-plebiscite procedure in the Saar, if it votes to rejoin Germany (TIME, Dec. 10). Last week M. Laval was due for another surprise...
With catlike tread, and with deft fingers, workmen have been engaged for the past several days in clambering about a raft moored in the middle of the Charles, and in stufllng oakum into the Weeks Bridge. The bridge has apparently developed some sort of weakness of the joints, and quantities of oakum are needed to prevent its collapse under the dainty feet of the Cadets. Due to the presence of heating pipes inside, the laborers game of ring around a rosy consists of opening the bridge up completely every morning, working for a short time on the interior, and then...
...politicos are more deft than wary old President Arturo Alessandri, "The Lion" who emerged triumphant from that spate of revolutions which gave Chile six Presidents in 18 months (TIME, Sept...
...great Egyptian Hall of London's Mansion House last week deft waiters in knee breeches had removed most of the elaborate silver service and distributed the nuts and raisins. The King's Health had been drunk, gentlemen were free to smoke. The occasion was the annual dinner of the retiring Lord Mayor to the merchants and bankers of London. Bull-voiced, the Lord Mayor cried...