Word: deft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could draw audiences, obtain free radio time, effectively expound his own political doctrines not as though seeking power but with the noble air of using his power for the public good. So well were some of his advisers satisfied with this form of campaigning-including, last week, his deft anticipation of Alf Landon's crop insurance pronouncements (see p. 16)-that they had no wish for him to change. But nonaggressive policy, no matter how successful, does not fit the born temperament of Franklin Roosevelt. Last week therefore, the hour struck when the candidate's desire...
...pretty taste in whiskey and a deft hand at intrigue, which won him his Whitehall nickname of "Machiavelli-and-soda." Sir Robert's usual professional touch was evident last week when Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambassador to Germany, discovered that his wife must pass a little time in England for her health, and so invited her sister Lady Vansittart to Berlin to be his Embassy hostess during the Olympic Games. With the innocence of a fox in lamb's clothing, Sir Robert then simply went along with his charmingly social wife to Berlin "for entirely personal reasons...
Soprano Gorman piped prettily as the ingenuous young heroine. But in spite of Eugene Goossens' deft conducting, there was many a time when it was impossible to hear her over the big Wagner orchestra. Generous Cincinnati critics credited her with having made a promising start in opera. Newshawks made much of the facts that she had once won a bathing beauty contest (in 1929), when she was a high-school student in Bessemer, Mich., that she had twice been invited to join the Follies. Such publicity found little favor with the Gorman family which comes from proud old Gloucester...
...cheek, he very understandably insists that she come along with him to the Dolomites. But she can shake with active fury, as when she finds a letter that her lover-now husband-thought he had destroyed. The pathetic death of her child is largely the product of a deft, gentle touch in the writing. But it would never to so simply affecting if it were not for the piteous way in which the heroine, after having been told by the hospital that her baby is dead, and having been spurned by her distracted husband, comes back to the wards with...
...Council's movements last week there was more than one deft finesse,* but by acting under Article XV the following trains of events were made possible. First, the Council, sitting as a Committee of Thirteen (the Italian Councilman and the Ethiopian Delegate being excluded), must draft a fresh League report on Italy & Ethiopia, and last week Communist Councilman Litvinoff of Russia said candidly that he will try to have it made much harsher toward Fascist Italy than the previous report of the Committee of Five (TIME, Sept...