Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoof his own college. Even Adapter-Director Lindsay, who spent one year at Harvard, knew well that Princeton dormitory rooms have no Chippendale furniture, no grand pianos, that no Princeton dean has ever been knocked out by an undergraduate, trussed up and photographed by newsreel men. But so deft and good-tempered are their extravagances that no injury is done...
...recognize all the local variations which his system has acquired. His basic idea was to give a smart backfield, big or little, the advantage over a heavier team. (Average weight of the Horsemen was only 164-lb.). Most conspicuous features of his system are a hop-shifting backfield; deft, sidewise blocking in the line; the box forma tion of the backfield; the seven-man line on defense. On offense, almost every line man has the job of blocking one assigned opposing lineman, leaving the entire backfield free to run interference for the ball carrier, "power ahead of the ball...
Chuffing out of Rio on Royal Albert's special last week. President Justo made for Sao Paulo and Santos. "The Coffee Heart of Brazil." After visiting famed Butantan Snake Farm, where deft attendants showed him how anti-snake-bite vaccine is made from venom, President Justo rode out to a typical Brazilian coffee jazenda, then embarked at Santos to sail home on the Argentine dreadnaught Moreno. He had not even reached home when an incident occurred to give a decidedly ironic twist to the peace negotiations. A cousin and a nephew of President Vargas were killed in a minor...
...Republican candidate whom Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker defeated in 1929. But in the campaign he charged Tammany with most of the honeyfuggling which Samuel Seabury later proved in his famed probe. Last Autumn Mr. La Guardia, a radical Republican, failed to be re-elected to Congress. As a deft counterthrust Tammany promptly began to talk of running Ferdinand Pecora as the Tiger's candidate for district attorney. Smart counsel to the Senate Banking & Currency Committee and a Sicilian immigrant, Democrat Pecora would split the Italian vote which Italian-extracted Fiorello La Guardia would naturally draw...
...Deft Sir Patrick Hastings soon had the Court's lips twitching. He read aloud the more puckish portions of the advertisement describing the efforts of a Blennerhassett to make a yo-yo perform for his children. He began with "deprecatory condescension. . . . The yo-yo was recalcitrant. . . . First it would and then it wouldn't. But the Blennerhassett blood was up. He was determined to make the little devil on a string do its stuff...