Word: well-knit
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...genius who is a really great manager, but not in Mr. Burnham's sense. The greatness of Sloan's achievement is that he took the vast rambling collection of companies which Promoter Durant put together with all a promoter's nonchalance, and made it into a well-knit, well-run company...
OVERTURE TO DEATH-Ngaio Marsh-Furman ($2). Bizarre murder of a malevolent spinster, in full view of an English church-social audience, neatly solved, by Scotland Yard's Inspector Alleyn. A well-knit baffler, with colorful characterizations...
...There is an enormous difference," explains Director Hanson, "between music that is well-knit and sounds like Hell, and music that doesn't sound the way the composer intended it to sound. The first is competent musicianship; the second is not. . . . A competent composer deserves at least one hearing before an audience...
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS : SYMPHONY IN F MINOR (B.B.C. Symphony; composer conducting; Victor: 8 parts). Well-knit, rugged contemporary symphony by England's No. 1 composer...
...Toast of New York" ranks high in entertainment, low as an artistic production. One fact probably follows from the other. For while a cast including Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer, Cary Grant, and Jack Oakie aims to please every taste, presence of such diverse and typed stars would without well-knit plot tend to disrupt any film into a series of bit performances. Such actually takes place, as the producers did not make out over well with their plot...