Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Danny was 27, Moss Hart saw him perform at a Manhattan nightclub, La Martinique, promptly hired him for Lady in the Dark. Opening night, he stood the audience's hair on end with his effortless recitation of 54 Russian composers' names in 40 seconds. Next season he was a full-fledged Broadway star in Let's Face It! Danny Kaye (ne Kominsky) had knocked around in show business for nearly a dozen years before that...
...King. The war has given him a new and tempered toughness, a new confidence, an easier manner. As Duke of York he was shy, hesitant in public, agonized by his stuttering. Now he walks with dignity. His voice usually has rounded, effortless confidence. The speech impediment still troubles him when he broadcasts, but is otherwise seldom noticeable. He is still only 5 ft. 8 in. tall and slightly built. But he seems a bigger...
...Race. Rice seldom sets the pace. Neither does Hagg. But after the first lap of the big race, lean Gunder decided to take the lead. A youngster named Wilt spurted past Hagg once, passed him again. But Hagg refused to be annoyed. With effortless ease he glided over the cinders, his fringe of long hair flapping, his voluminous shorts billowing like a spinnaker...
Notable bit: white-tied Alan Mowbray, quite sufficiently listed as an "English Gentleman," dislocating the rest of the film by his monumental, effortless detachment towards Robert Young, his own surroundings, and the comedy in general...
...Seeing, consists of painting the central mass of a machine a special grey which Du Pont calls "Horizon," then picking out the working surfaces in "spotlight buff" or "spotlight green." The idea is to increase the worker's alert observance of what he is doing by making it effortless for him to see, in soft-not glaring-contrast, the object he is working on and the cutting or shaping parts of the machine...