Word: sleight
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...Somewhere in the past, Ben Hogan learned to "shuffle" a deck of cards. Occasionally, he shows the boys some of his sleight-of-hand tricks, by way of explaining why he never plays poker with them...
Last night's informal dance at the Somerset finished the terpsichorean activities of the week which featured a Hop Concert at the Blockhouse on Tuesday evening. There Galli-Galli, an imported Egyptian, entertained with feats of magic and sleight-of-hand...
...Lady from Shanghai (Columbia) is a piece of sleight of hand by Orson Welles. The big trick in this picture was to divert a head-on collision of at least six plots, and make of it a smooth-flowing, six-lane whodunit. Orson brings the trick...
Steel, the bellwether of U.S. industry (and the patternmaker for industrial wages), acted as if it were ashamed of what it was doing. There was no public announcement of the price advance. Some of the increases were accomplished by a sleight-of-hand change on the price tag. U.S. Steel's Carnegie-Illinois subsidiary merely told customers that semi-finished steel, which had previously sold at $55 a gross ton (2,240 lbs.), would now cost $54 a net ton (2,000 lbs.). Other major steel producers, as they usually do, followed Big Steel's example. Prices went...
...production occasionally becomes too slow, and too nearly a literal-minded play. It would be much more real if it were less realistic. Apparently Producer-Director Korda was afraid to stylize the picture completely and so slowed up the lines for the general audience. These lines were meant for sleight-of-hand delivery; too often the players draw a diagram of how the rabbit got into...