Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single coo. In The Great Sebastians, however, the Lunts' cooing counts for less than their billing: the show is liveliest when it is making fun of show folk, and the Lunts are most delightful when they are capering as hams. The plot also permits them their moments of deft heroics, and some nice dressing-room nonsense as well as drawing-room aplomb...
Heckscher was slightly off his game, but his crushing smash service and soft corner shots were too much for Tony LaFleur. Heckscher actually hit his opponent several times with his bullet-like serve and often caught him flat-footed with his deft corners, winning...
...Month Club for December, An Episode of Sparrows may well prove the book of the year for those who are not ashamed to weep over the printed page. Far from the Indian scenes on which she founded her literary fame (Black Narcissus, The River), Author Godden here tries her deft writing hand at landscaping a child's heart, letting the teardrops fall where they...
...friend of Bob's ever found him lacking in warmth, sympathy or time when there were troubles to be met. Though he was no opportunist, though he said what he thought whenever it was useful, he made few enemies. Many stood in awe of him because of his deft and pungent tongue, but apt as he was in attack or retort, Sherwood was readier still to give mercy, happier to be tolerant than to be angry...
Among those puffing their way up the descending escalator of intellectual fashion, many have cause to remember the shrewdly placed elbow and deft umbrella of a comparative shopper in ideas called Mary McCarthy...