Word: skilfull
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking a tiny silver trowel with a mahagony handle-made from furnishings in the old court chamber-President Hoover dabbed a butter pat of mortar on stone. Chief Justice Hughes heaped the trowel full. Mr. Thompson did likewise. Then a master mason scraped off their dabs, spread a skilful smear...
Hollywood knew Paul Bern as an adroit and skilful cinema craftsman. Associate producers generally are not credited for their work, but he was considered largely responsible for MGM's Grand Hotel. Paul Bern came to the U. S. from Germany when he was nine. Educated in Manhattan public schools...
Leverett is one of the less well known Houses. It labors under the handicap of a building which is not altogether new. McKinlock Hall, the old Freshman Dormitory, was combined with the newly constructed Mather to complete the unit. But despite this Leverett maintains an attractive and congenial atmosphere. The...
Lovers Courageous (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), although it was written as a cinema, not as a stage play, by famed Playwright Frederick Lonsdale, has most of the qualities which are noticeable in adaptations of stage comedies. Its unusual charm springs partly from Lonsdale's gracious dialog and partly from the...
Its range is wide; Arthurian legend, Horatian odes, sonnets in accepted tradition, lyrics in free form make up the bulk of it. Robert Hillyer in a foreword speaks of the author's "delicacy of feeling and multiplicity of interests," and of a "technique which was already a performance." "The Dunes...