Word: savoir
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...sings old Leadbelly songs, Negro blues stuff, with a slow heavy beat, and effectively repititious chord patterns. His songs are humorous and his guitar technique dazzling (a technique which includes the use of a Hayes-Bickford knife to produce at points an odd sort of tone) and his general savoir-faire entirely compensates for the fact that, like many male folk singers, his voice sounds much like Jack Benny's Rochester...
...pride, he cried. "Don't you think Kasavubu has insulted you by trying to set up a new government without consulting you?" He opened the pork barrel, suggesting that there were 60 ambassadorial jobs to be filled in Congolese diplomatic posts abroad. "For these tasks of prestige and savoir faire, I must depend on you, my dear colleagues." smiled Lumumba...
Dear Tod, we like your savoir-faire Direct and deft and debonair. No pitch, no plaques, no benefits, No Ladies' Aid, no worker kits. Half-Nelson tactics aren't your dish You twist your ring and state your wish. The genie hears: Voila, a champ. The oil doth pour from Nelson's lamp...
...current issue. It interestingly portrays a college girl's conflict between allegiance to her farm family and to the values of the richer city. A most amusing and dramatic incident of this is the interruption of the girl's "Dr. and Mrs. Allen have a tremendous amount of savoir faire," by the more important escape of her father's cows from the pasture. Miss Douglas is aware of the effect of the city on the farm girl, making them demand such needless conveniences as inside plumbing and all, but she fails to make plausible the severe temper tantrum...
...that this nun, who secretly keeps a mirror to catch sunbeams with, should have. In the male roles, Donald McAllister as the Doctor was stiff, formal, and didactic where he should have been casual, worldly, and sarcastic. As Antonio, Robert J. Morris was earnest enough, but substituted too much savoir faire and pompousness for what should have been a certain degree of awkwardness before the nuns...