Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case; members of the audience went away believing that some of her lines had been spoken extemporaneously; and in Margaret Ayer Barnes' "Jenny," she had the excellent support of Sir Guy Standing. "The Man With a Load of Mischief," however, is neither facile, nor Miss Cowl's supporting players deft. The result is a case of under-playing. Like a tennis player that has lost his nerve and contents himself by merely returning the ball any old way, Miss Cowl simply delivers her lines with painstaking care, hoping, perhaps, that the pleasant atmosphere of the old inn where the scene...
...When he reaches the killing floor he is hoisted up on a giant wheel by his left foot, delivered to a conveyor. Head down, tongue out, tail hanging down his back, squealing in terror, he is carried along until a husky man with a spear-like knife makes the deft throat-cutting thrust which kills him. Then an intricate web of knives scrapes off his hair, Government inspectors slice his neck glands to look for signs of tuberculosis. A knife cleaves off his head. Another knife sweeps his insides as clean as his skin. A twist of tweezers...
...spurious centuries. Modern Satsuma when offered frankly as such is generally an excellent buy in Japan, reflects ever fresh glory on the ancient Clan Satsuma. It was this clan of statesmen and warriors (for pottery making is but a Satsuma sideline) which Japanese suspected last week of a deft and daring move to dominate the Empire by wangling into office the present Cabinet...
...expert puppet manipulator whose fingers are reputed to be unusually deft with the strings is giving the miniature vaudeville under the auspices of the division of Music for the benefit of the Cambridge Chapter of the MacDowell Colony. The four acts to be presented are "The Two Beans", "A Korean Legend", "The Rabbit Ballet", and "The Punch and Judy Waltz". In "The Rabbit Ballet" four characters appear on the stage simultaneously, an unusual feat...
Associated Gas & Electric's progress has shown Mr. Hopson's deft accounting touches. Few in Wall Street except statisticians have ever mastered completely the complex A. G. & E. setup, yet Mr. Hopson is said to know off-hand every detail of its multitudinous preferred stocks and bonds and the issues of its subsidiary companies. He is the man who is thought to have worked towards one end recently: the substitution of A. G. & E. preferred stocks wherever possible in the place of subsidiaries' securities. Accomplishment of that end to a great degree has placed A. G. & E. in a stronger...