Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time he tossed a deft monkey wrench into the Conference's gears. Nation after nation was withdrawing objections to Ramsay MacDonald's Disarmament Plan (TIME, March 27). One of its chief points-elimination and destruction of present stocks of heavy siege guns, large bombing planes and tanks weighing more than 16 tons-was in a fair way toward adoption when up stepped Joseph Paul-Boncour...
...moment a rippling movement separated the corporation into those who jumped to the left, and those who jumped to the right, to avoid disaster. Only one man took a determined stand. With his head bent slightly forward in characteristic pose, he applied a deft hand to the collar that shot past like a flash of light. The machine went on; but the rider, out of breath and speechless at the austerity of the new circumstances was safely tethered. The corporation replaced its hats and moved on, definitely jovial now, and disappeared into University Hall. The wind struck at the Vagabond...
...Morris Green has effected an excellent production of an extremely uneven book. Whatever the play may have been in the original German, it has become in English a curious mixture of heavy-handed love-scenes and theatrical seduction--scenes alternating with bits as deft and sophisticated as you could wish. A string of witty lines follows theatrics in the style of the old snowstorm melodrama...
...first time since they wrote The Royal Family, Playwrights Kaufman & Ferber have turned out a piece in which they should take pleasure and profit, too. Dinner at Eight is seriocomic, and it may be inferred that Miss Ferber supplied the serio-element, Mr. Kaufman the comic. The deft Kaufman hand, however, is thoroughly evident in this excellent play's shrewd direction...
...clear the street outside, bang against a wall. By the time he recovered it Owen was sitting on the bench again, the game and series were as good as over. With two Millers on base in their half of the inning, the Bears wound up the series by a deft double play...