Word: deftly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unlimited, but she does as well as could be expected under the circumstances. For the most part she is the innocent and unaffected girl which Greene intended. Walter Fitzgerald manages to make the priest a sympathetic blend of the wise and ineffectual, and if he seems more deft at both than psychologist Michael Goodliffe, it is probably because Greene has given him the better arguments...
...state, agreed with Negro Boxer I. H. ("Sporty") Harvey that the 14th Amendment guarantees him the right to occasional bouts with his white brothers. ¶ In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the New York Knickerbockers got the professional basketball season off to a fast and early start. The deft passing of Dick McGuire and the deadly shooting of Carl Braun added up to a surprising victory over the championship Minneapolis Lakers...
...Protestant member of the Christian Democratic Union; of a heart attack, following an operation on abscessed tonsils; in Oldenburg. An expert parliamentarian, Lawyer Ehlers was elected to the Bundestag in 1949, brought religious harmony and gave wider voter appeal to the predominantly Roman Catholic C.D.U. through his deft leadership of the party's Protestant wing...
After months of preparations, he was finally ready to begin his series of murals for the library. Prominent visitors, alumni, officials students, and townspeople watched attentively from the long basement study hall. Orozco carefully prepared his colors and began to paint. But the deft strokes of the master muralist began to trickle down the smooth plaster wall. The crowd snickered; Orozco fumed...
...world highjinks, of 57th Street dealers who are chiefly double-dealers, of competitiveness that seems more like conspiracy. The play takes some amusing potshots at these methods, and in the last act finally mixes the methods with a lively madness of its own. Helped by Percy Waram's deft performance, the play also gets some fun out of the crotchety Edgerton-for whom, plainly, Philadelphia's late great Collector Albert (Argyrol) Barnes was the inspiration...