Word: skill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important gift from Philip Hofer '21 of Cleveland includes rare and beautiful etchings of Gaya, his "Caprichos", "Proverbios", and "Tauromaquia" in early editions, which well show the artist's skill in satire, delightfully portrayed by a combination of etchings and aquatint. There are also two works of Antonio Canal which are characteristic of his brilliant handling of sunlight and atmospheric effect...
Showing great skill with the foils, sabre, and epee, but particularly with the last two, the Brunswick High School swordsmen defeated the Harvard Freshmen by a 13 to 4 score on Saturday afternoon in a match fought at Hemenway Gymnasium...
...because, they thought, they were not permitted to dance at Mr. Edison's party. Mr. Hoover opened Mr. Edison's gate and sent the children in. On Mrs. Edison's ample table was a big green-&-yellow pound cake. This the old gentleman sliced with skill and raillery...
...knows his record as an officer in the fifty corporations which he has served,--who is acquainted with his skill as an amateur yachtsman,--or who knows his integrity in business and his interest in naval affairs, can doubt that Mr. Adams is highly suited for the post. The things which have dominated him have been evident in all of his family. Since the colonial days when they captained ships out of Boston and Salem harbors, his maternal ancestors, the Crowninshields, were among the most famous of New England seafarers. Only last year Mr. Adams himself sailed across the Atlantic...
...read it). Most of these authors should be collected in their original bindings and the lady will, of course, have to do over her library. There will be many cloth books in bright colors and paper labels and the decorator will have to use uncommon skill. Somehow I cannot see Barbellion in calf or Sherwood Anderson in levant. Hardy and France? Perhaps...