Word: skill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last camp! I suddenly realized that we had come to the end of the journey and what that meant. A certain sentimental melancholy seized he, as I reflected that I should probably never see again Hamida's genial grin, or again witness Edda's barbaric feats of skill with gun and dagger; but, as the brazen sky cooled and paled. I offered a silent prayer that once more our paths should cross...
...pick out any one of two as particularly noteworthy. Certainly the most imposing are the two large statutes: Diana and Actaeon; yet it is in a small bronze the Dancer and Gazelles that the sculptor seems to have reached the peak of his art. There is a grace and skill in the composition and execution, a fragile beauty which leaves one almost in doubt whether such a thing can be done in bronze even when he sees it before his eyes...
Though the value of such a work of skill would be fabulous, no matter of what it was made, the fact that the cars are of pure gold and the engine of platinum is not insignificant...
...imperial relations is a masterpiece of evasion. It has recom mended the elimination of five words and the insertion of one comma in the royal title (TIME, Nov. 29), and it advises a few changes of formalities and formulae. But it has avoided with the greatest skill every real problem that arises...
Biographer Poliakov recreates with fine emotional skill the dramatic scene which resulted in a Danish Princess eventually becoming the Empress Marie. She, a blooming girl, and the Grand Duke (Crown Prince) Nicholas of Russia (died 1865) had experienced for each other an undoubted and romantic mutual infatuation. Before they could be married he was stricken with paralysis. Brave, devoted, he called his fiancee and his brother Alexander to his deathbed and swore them to wed each other. The gigantic Grand Duke Alexander (later Tsar Alexander III) was as strong as a bear, as slow...