Word: deft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience is rewarded, however, for in the nonsensical play-within-a-play which takes up the remaining two acts there is genuine homer. This is supplied by deft touches, ranging from Eleanore Bell's exclamation, "Oh, Ecthtathy of blithe!" through the able clowning of Agnes Love to the finale in which Eleasnor Spencer and Jonas N. Mulcloud of white balloons to the strains of "I Married an Angel...
...Watt, American Workers' Delegate to the International Labor Office. To avoid further offending visitors, five paragraphs of his speech relating to "Fascistic brutality" were cut out of the printed copies distributed to the press. Czechoslovakia's official representative, wiry little Dr. Emanuel Slechta, limited himself to a deft understatement which brought down the house: "The world is in a great need of better international management...
...PUZZLE IN POISON - Anthony Berkeley-Crime Club ($2). Arsenic poisoning of a retired English engineer, solved by one of his friends. Style: deft; characterization: good; ending: clever...
...Elizabethan times people sang deft. contrapuntal madrigals for amusement, as they now play bridge. The present series 'is the first devoted to madrigals by continental European composers...
...WALL-Mary Roberts Rinehart-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Mrs. Rinehart with her usual smooth craftsmanship and deft handling of a large cast tells how the indiscretions of a beautiful divorcee lead to three murders in a New England summer colony. Rivals may turn out more striking stories, but the suspense and atmosphere of The Wall make it the safest bet of the month for readers who want mysteries of general rather than specialized interest...