Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before hemisphere trade solidarity is achieved, there is many a headachy problem to be solved. One of these is straightening out foreign exchange, now all muddled because: 1) of the financial sleight-of-hand worked by Germany in building up its Latin American markets, 2) some South American currencies (notably the Argentine) have been tied to the bouncing British pound...
...piece Gillette which opens up like a clamshell is basically his invention. This spring, just to see if he could do it, he wrote a mystery story, Murder in Newport, which Scribner's accepted and published. He also plays the mouth organ (upside down) and does sleight-of-hand...
This gentleman has dazzled Massachusetts with his virtuosity ever since the days of Charles Ponzi, the sleight-of-hand banker whose blow-up rocked Boston 18 years ago. Mr. McMasters was Mr. Ponzi's pressagent.* When the blow-up came, the Boston Post scooped the story. Its informant: Pressagent McMasters...
...novels of Henry de Montherlant are characterized by a strange air of scatterbrained earnestness. One of the wittiest of modern French writers, he gets his effects, like an accomplished sleight-of-hand artist, by looking in the wrong direction, delivering little sermons about this and that, suddenly popping out with his tricks already worked. Because of this stealthy way of sneaking up on a story, his characters sometimes seem less like human beings than like rabbits pulled out of a hat, blinking uncomfortably at their sudden appearance...
...index of the true state of Germany's trade troubles. Faced with the cost of providing Germany with a million fully-equipped troops, faced with the expense of a grandiose public-works scheme, shrewd conservative Dr. Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht, Reich Minister of Economics, has long been doing sleight of hand with Germany's foreign trade. With gold in the Reichsbank dwindling toward zero, Germany, since the rise of raw-material prices in 1935, has had to export finished goods at uneconomical prices in order to get currency to buy abroad such raw materials-copper...