Word: skilfull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged in the French diplomatic service, Author Morand has written skilful takes of the Sudan, India, Indo-China. His collection of Negro stories is based upon 30,000 miles of travel in 28 Negro countries, from Harlem to Jibuti, Guadeloupe to Timbuktu.
Bird in Hand, named for the Gloucester inn in which it takes place, contains the slight story of a romance which is opposed by the girl's father on the rather unusual ground that he does not want her to marry above herself. It is, so far as plot...
Yet Baudelaire, in spite of arduous anc meticulous polishing, was not a skilful nor always successful prosodist, and his vocabulary was comparatively small. Gautier, his master, wrote better verse. Anc Joris Karl Huysmans, his disciple, was more artistically erotic.
The Geisha girls of Japan, skilful with the lute and larynx, forming the apex of Japan's musical culture, were infuriated two weeks ago (TIME, July 16) when they were compared by a committee of 14 moralists to the rude night-club entertainers of Manhattan. Japanese Geisha girls count...
Keep Shufflin' is for those who like capering, singing, cuckoo coons. Flourney Miller and Aubrey Lyles, the lazy and fantastic brace of dark comedians who slouched with such comic melancholy through Shuffle Along, are again on hand. They organize the Equal Got League, a millennial society which is even...