Word: skill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these reasons many a banker feared last fortnight that the negotiations had been dropped. But over the weekend a group of prominent bankers met with a banker of great skill and fame, James Herbert Case, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. When the new week started, it was announced that the merger would go through, that Banker Case would be chairman of the consolidated banks, that an able new board of directors would guide its affairs...
...Wales have been leading foreign sellers of coal to the U. S., but last fortnight Burns Bros., most potent distributor of coal in the New York area, announced it would start importing some anthracite from Germany. If Andrew J. Maloney, flanked on one side by Stone & Webster engineering skill, on the other by Morgan-Drexel financial shrewdness and potency, can lead PRC to stability of earnings, perhaps eventually to dividends, he will have won one of the hardest battles in U. S. industry...
First among this class of objects should be mentioned the sculpture in glazed terra cotta. That people in Mesopotamia should at so early a date have mastered the art of glaze and been able to use it with such skill and control is almost as amazing as the perfection of the sculpture itself. Antedating the Assyrian and late Babylonian glazing by many hundreds of years, one finds here a fully perfected technique where might be expected the stumblings of a beginner...
...area cleared there are three separate types of building: the private house, the great palace, and the temple. It is in the latter two and particularly from the temple that most material of artistic value has come to light. Here the Nuzians gave abundant and convincing proof of their skill as artisans and of their understanding and feeling as real artists...
...hour and a half, Sinner's Holiday has been compressed to 55 minutes. Concentration gives it pith; it tells its little story compactly and credibly. Although the action involves liquor-running and murder, it is less a picture of action than of character, made so by the skill of Lucille La Verne and James Cagney. She is the owner of a penny arcade, which she runs with an avarice only equaled by her devotion to bourgeois respectability and to her son, Cagney, a snivelling, dependent coward. Best shot-Evelyn Knapp getting pennies to be used by the arcade...