Word: feats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half addle-headed, which she uses to convey youth's nameless longings and which are often so startlingly misplaced in her portrayals of women of the world, are those which make her portrayal of a girl whom she really understands her masterpiece to date. The supremely difficult feat of characterizing a poseuse so as to mock the poses without mocking the person behind them she carries off with success. This is best gauged by the way audiences wriggle while watching an episode like the one in which, caught by her admirer running up the steps of a business school...
...Adroitly seized upon by the President last week was the fact that Soviet imports from the U. S., which were down to only some $15,000,000 in 1934, have doubled in volume so far this year. This fact he turned into a feat of diplomacy by instructing William Christian Bullitt, long-suffering U. S. Ambassador in Moscow, to agree with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff that Russia, in return for the indicated increase in her purchases from the U. S. during the next twelvemonth, shall enjoy for that period a 50% reduction in the U. S. tariff...
...haunted house, a miniature Alpine village. Davy Jones's Locker, Tony Sarg's Blue Grotto etc., etc., but also the Steel Pier Grand Opera Company which performs on summer weekend nights. Managed by Jules Falk, the company is staffed with able second-string singers, who have accomplished the unique feat of singing consistently and successfully in English for the past seven years. For all its garish and noisy surroundings, the Steel Pier repertoire is catholic enough to do credit to many a better-known company. Last week of the 31,000 people who thronged the pier, 1,200 filled...
Just ahead a subway train had broken down. "P. G." decided that since it must be pushed to the next station by the train he was driving, he would stay at the motorman's post and do the pushing, a feat mildly ticklish. With undergroundmen, including Lord Ashfield, perspiring profusely, "P. G." pushed successfully. "I assure you, Sir," cried flustered Lord Ashfield as they alighted, "that the breakdown experience you have had is one which one of our drivers might not encounter in a lifetime...
...elected Poland's next President. Today the candidate of the "Colonel's Clique" to succeed Scientist Moscicki as President is able, energetic, shrewd General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, close crony of Inspector General Edward Rydz-Smigly who was expected to try to repeat Marshal Pilsudski's feat of managing Poland unobtrusively from behind the Army's scenes...