Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flodson has taken his text. But readers who excusably shy off from one more English story of industrial tragedy in the Midlands need not be so quick to leave Author Hodson's vicinity. This novel of the boom and its collapse in cotton-spinning Lancashire is woven with a deft hand; though the pattern is not new, Author Hodson keeps it from seeming drab...
...long tables in a Manhattan loft building sat half a hundred girls, their deft fingers flying between stacks of folded rotogravure pages, piles of little fabric squares, and pots of paste. All day long, day after day for a week, they neatly pasted the little squares of cloth onto the printed pages. There were 980,000 cloth samples, called "swatches" by retailers, and cut from 6,000 yd. of material, to be affixed to 469,000 copies of rotogravure with 250 Ib. of paste. When all was finished. 15 trucks carted the 16 tons of paper to the New York...
...forerunner and a portent. Her history is interesting to the biographically minded and to specialists. This version of it shows up incidentally but rather well, the stodginess of the reviewers in the earlier nineteenth century, the nearly complete lack of public taste, and the banality of stagecraft Despite its deft writing, it is a depressing little pamphlet, revealing more than one likes to see of the awful depths to which even the bravest and best of English dramaturges have sunk...
...story, after H. G. Wells, is laid in an English countryside, and most of the accents are satisfactorily broad, the Invisible Man being, as far as it is possible to tell, of the Colin Clive type. On the whole, the picture is absorbing and mechanically deft, especially in the shots of rattling tongs, flying lamps, and moving furniture, all invisibly motivated. One of the few possible pictures now showing around Boston...
Distribution. Having helped big National Distillers into the saddle for the supply stampede, alert Mason Day turned his attention to the next important phase of the new industry: Distribution. Under his deft hand Mission Dry Corp.. nation-wide sellers of orange, lemon and grapefruit juice, with 1,700 jobbers' outlets and a sales organization throughout the land, has been recapitalized and staffed up. ready to move whiskeys and whatnot from warehouses via retailers to sideboards as none of the distillers or importers except perhaps Schenley is yet prepared to do. After the stampede is well begun...