Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author transposes his characters from one level of existence to another, from fact to fancy and back again, so that right before our very eyes reality as though by magic melts away into unreality and a new fantastic world comes to life right in our midst by the deft turn of a phrase. Towards the end of the third act, right after the most realistic scene in the whole play, one of the characters turns to the landlady and asks her to make a second at chess. "But I do not play chess", remonstrates the landlady, "I only play checkers...
Charles Phelps Taft II,* 28, presided at the meeting with that deft assured despatch which characterized his undergraduate activities at Yale. In him the 11,000 delegates present found an earnest layman lawyer from Cincinnati, well fitted to guide in debate the laymen who control the destinies of a great Christian society. It was decided, without hair splitting or theological wrangling, that henceforth non-church members may vote in the councils of the Y. M. C. A. Previously all voting members had to belong to an evangelical church...
...Burrell has brought the play to us in speech that is at once deft and forcible," he wrote. "He knows how to talk in terms of the theater--and that is not to talk too much...
...rhetorician would approve this statement for its deft use of antithesis; but, since nothing could be more inaccurate, it is not of much value as a comment on the present problems of higher education. Mr. Williams' picture of the student of the nineties entering college athirst for knowledge but enticed away from it by the lure of athletics and managerships does not command credence by its cleverness. One suspects that a good many of Mr. Williams' fellow Freshmen were out quite openly in search of the good time which it appears circumstances forced down his own unwilling throat. Those were...
...first act provoking interest by its lack of dramatic climax. The second and third acts hold the attention remarkably. The suave scheming deacon, a lovable hypocrite and generous to a fault, is pivot; and Mr. Berton Churchill acts his sanctimonious role to perfection, while with nimble wit and deft fingers he wins himself, the girl, the hobo, and the proprietress out of dangerous holes. Then there are the villains, well drawn, better acted, and best cast, and the local characters highly indigenous and the comic prize fighter, "Bull" Moran, et altera. Young Jerry Devine, as the hero and heroine idolater...