Word: skillfull
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London audiences last week thought so too. But the Daily Mail's Critic Ralph Hill thought he saw a fundamental catch in it. Wrote he: "Where does this display lead to? Nowhere, as I see it. To substitute a mouth organ supported by a piano for an oboe and...
His victims are stupid, wealthy women. His difficult task is to woo them, marry them, pry their money loose, murder them, dispose of the corpses, and invest his take. He is exceedingly hardworking, skillful and, in his way, ethical at his job; he takes the least possible emotional advantage of...
One of the most skillful boxers of all time, Benny Leonard (born Leiner) learned to fight in the streets of Manhattan's lower East Side. In his championship days he was so good on defense that he got through many a bout with his well-oiled hair still impeccably...
Chiao (clever). "Clever" Chinese are slick at rendering the "outward formal likeness"; they know the "rules." As Old Master Ching Hao put it: "The skillful painter carves out and pieces together scraps of beauty."
Brooklyn is a city with an inferiority complex and 22 "chambers of commerce," and it takes its baseball seriously. Manhattan may have taller skyscrapers and Washington more skillful politicos, but in any kind of fair fight-say of nine men on a ball field-Brooklyn expects to hold its own...