Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phrase, "the almighty dollar," all these things he was. For delicacy and precision of style he has few superiors in America. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "The Alhambra" show a grace and beauty that is carefully wrought, while "A History Of New York" is full of deft humour and sly winks. But the Vagabond will not go deeper into the subject, art is long and time is fleeting. He must turn to other subjects and allow Professor Mathiessen to carry on for him in Harvard 6 today at 10 o'clock...
...Erskine book. There being no profound emotions to express, Composer Gruenberg made no profound attempts. People who remembered the modernistic tendencies of his other works, his Jazz-Suite and Enchanted Isle, were surprised at the melodic simplicity of the Beanstalk score. Most of the music had the smooth, deft charm appropriate to a fairy tale. Only the giant had use for occasional striding dissonances, for an alien piano which characterized him with a noisy, thumping bass...
...self-sufficient in regard to the two primary human wants, food and clothing. Unfortunately for us the East India Co. by means which I would prefer not to describe, destroyed that supplementary village industry, and the millions of spinners who had become famous through the cunning of their deft fingers for drawing the finest thread, such as has never yet been drawn by any modern machinery. ... No matter what may be said to the contrary it is a historical fact that before the advent of the East India Co. these villagers were not idle, and he who wants...
...from Manila for the U. S. via China. During his six-week visit to the islands Senator Hawes had united a great mass of Filipinos for immediate independence, whipped their enthusiasm for freedom to the highest pitch in years. It was now Secretary Hurley's mission to find deft ways & means of undoing Senator Hawes's political handiwork...
...manager was made ready on the operating table while the tall thin man whipped off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, put on a surgeon's white robe. A quick deft incision and a few minutes later the tall thin man had excised the bus manager's ruptured appendix. Such was the first operation performed by tall, thin Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, brother of the Constitution sponsor (see p.11), since he became President Hoover's Secretary of the Interior...