Word: dextrously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Grant should have played in a major Davis Cup match long before 1937. Be cause his legs and arms are so short that he has to spend most of his time chasing the ball, Grant frequently falls down, has become dextrous at returning shots while sitting on the ground. This has caused experts to underestimate the soundness of his game, which has enabled him to beat most of the world's best players at one time or another. Grant has been struggling to get on the U. S. Davis Cup team for the past five years...
...scarlet evening gown, high-necked in front, sleeveless and backless was completed by the Paris House of Worth last week to the exact measurements of Mrs. Simpson, rushed to Madame Tussaud's waxworks, London. There dextrous British Mr. John Theodore Tussaud, great-grandson of the original French Madame, was personally finishing up a wax head of Mrs. Simpson while four trusty Tussaud modelers made the rest...
...fortify the Dardanelles but virtually to control passage of the straits, whether by sea or air. Russia, having France on her side, hammered demands that Black Sea countries (like Russia) should have unrestricted entrance and egress, while nonBlack Sea countries should have their war boats virtually excluded. A dextrous word wangler, Comrade Litvinoff favored the Conference with his explanation of why the Red Navy, although "wholly not aggressive," must be able to rush out of its Black Sea at any moment. The reason is, according to the Soviet Foreign Minister, that units of the Bolshevik fleet have to make "courtesy...
...part of French savings banks funds, La C. A. d'A. is a revolving fund for amortization of the national debt, and both are great stabilizing forces behind the price of rentes (Government bonds). At the art and science of such sanctified price rigging no practitioner is more dextrous than new Governor Tannery of the Bank of France. He is just the Governor for an ambitious young Premier who lunched with President Roosevelt last summer and came away favorably impressed...