Word: dextrous
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...unraveling of the complex business affairs of Bobby Baker will provide a busy winter for the Rules Committee and a few weeks of entertainment for newspaper readers. If the Congress is willing, the disclosure of the peculiar financial dealings of the dextrous Mr. Baker may also lead to the reappraisal of the entire question of legislative ethics...
...situation screamed for a fullback power play. But while Gianelly's substitute, Dick Oehmler, is dextrous, he weighs only 160 pounds, and his attempt to buck the stubborn Yale line was repulsed...
...Genius of Art Tatum (Clef LP). Five recordings produced by Jazz Impresario Norman Granz in testimony of Tatum's famed skills. Pianist Tatum, 44 and nearly totally blind, can make any song sparkle with his dextrous, imaginative ideas. Spontaneously, he ripples off complex chords, melodic figures and moods that should make the most devoted Liberace fan cry with shame. Some of the 34 titles: The Man I Love, Body and Sold, Yesterdays, My Last Affair, This Can't Be Love, and I'm Coming, Virginia...
Theory I explains Franklin Roosevelt as the Great Improviser, impetuously patching up the irremediable, a dextrous three-shell manipulator, now-you-see-it, now-you-don't man. Theory II makes him a sitting Lincoln, streamlined for 1940, wearing a club tie instead of a shawl...
Next to Negroes (but a long way behind them), white Southern youngsters are the most inventive and dextrous dancers in the U. S. They work hard at their fun, and to "shine," or perform so as to attract attention, is accounted worthy. Last spring, at a prom at the University of South Carolina, a dance was launched which promised to give Southerners more scope for shining than they had ever enjoyed before. It was called "The Big Apple." A party of students had seen Negroes cavorting through its steps in the "Big Apple Night Club," a onetime synagog in Columbia...