Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bank clerk decided to move up the street. He motioned to the little old lady who scurried over. With a quick, deft hand she dumped the change into an enormous, hitherto concealed sack...
...tinkle of expensive glassware mingled with the murmur of subdued conversation and the swift, deft movement of red-coated waiters in the grand ballroom of London's Grosvenor House one day last week. Distinguished guests sipped and chatted at the invitation of the Iraq Petroleum Co., to celebrate the opening of a $115 million new 30-inch pipeline to the Mediterranean that promises to more than triple the output of Iraq's oil. The assembled guests watched a movie of the pipeline's construction, and applauded vigorously at the progress it augured. "You can be bloody sure...
...only wit in the show lurks in the lyrics by Ogden Nash, and fortunately. Miss Davis recites rather than sings the best of them. The outrageous rhymester's lines are deft and often delightful, particularly when coupling words like respectable and "Toulouse Lantrectable." Nash's lyrics are set to pleasant music, though none of the tunes is likely to stick with you as far as the subway station. One which might is Roll Along Sadie, a lively number which suggests that Anita Loss might have been kinder to Sadie Thompson than Somerset Maugham...
...Heinz Trökes of Germany owes a great debt to Switzerland's great Paul Klee. Trokes' Between Clouds and Crystals is gay as an awning and deft as a magician's trick, though neither so gay nor so deft as Klee could...
Everybody is overjoyed. The natives have lost most of their children, are half-Christian, but have their virgin goddess. Irma has lost her husband, is half-pagan, but has the adoration she loves. As for Author March, he has had the pleasure of some deft ironic thrusts, at the expense of almost everybody but the reader...