Word: dextrously
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...impact of this situation on the doctor (Lionel Barrymore), his avaricious wife (Beulah Bondi), his daughters and the family retainer (Marie Dressier), produces an unusually dextrous and amusing comedy, partly in the mood of Moliere farce, as it exposes greed and ingratitude in Dr. Haggett, partly as romance when it turns out that the Raggett's old-maid servant is not only the subject of a magnificent Bean portrait but also Bean's widow, tenderly devoted to his memory...
...college games as college games compare to the higgledy-piggledy contests of gangling schoolboys. Professionals are almost always huge (an exception is Boston Braves' 167-lb. Center Tony Siano) but they do not lumber awkwardly like most huge college players. They must be light-footed, quick as eels, dextrous as jugglers. Professional line-play is clever, titanic and almost always evenly matched. Backfields use complex maneuvers which require split-second timing and the accuracy of basketballers in passing. Lateral passes develop from forwards, forwards from laterals, spinners and reverses have complications impossible and unnecessary for amateur teams. There...
...TIME is Mrs. Boole, aged 74. As a dextrous political strategist, she is "crafty" in the same sense as the late great Briand, Postmaster General Brown, Democratic Chairman Farley, Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Mayor Walker, New Hampshire's Senator Moses, Calvin Coolidge.-ED. Debt Challenge, (Cont'd) Sirs...
...Ginsberg (George Sidney) and a suave dummy president equipped with frock coat and toupe (Guy Kibbee), and by the justified suspicions of an attractive brunette (Evelyn Brent), whom he is prepared to marry at the end of the picture. High Pressure, well directed by Mervyn LeRoy, is rapid, trivial, dextrous and absurd. Good shot: Powell, rewarded with $100,000 for his synthetic rubber company, planning to capitalize a concern for making wooden airplanes...
...make an unsophisticated admirer, when they meet again, mistake her for a lady. After three years of pleasurable intimacy, Gable is threatened by a scandal. His mistress has been ennobled by experience and she defends his conduct in an impromptu speech to a political gathering. The speech is so dextrous, so sincere that it prompts cheers and a conclusion in which matrimony is implied...