Word: skill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the opening act of the latter is atrocious. Although the make-up department has cleverly turned out a George Jean Nathan, an Alexander Woolcott, and an Orson Welles, these gentlemen's attempts at acting are deplorable, even when allowances are made for first-night stage-fright. Only the skill of John W. Sever '40, as Maxwell Anderson alias Mr. Puff, and the charm of Dorothe Larson of the Bishop Lec Dramatic School induce the audience to return to their seats after the intermission...
McGillivray of the Creeks, by John Walter Caughey (University of Oklahoma Press, $3), tells of a Creek Indian chief of the post-Revolutionary War period who was known as the Talleyrand of Alabama for his skill in playing off Spanish-American antagonisms for Creek benefit. Son of a Scottish trader and a French-Indian woman, McGillivray owned slaves, suffered from venereal disease, died in his 303, preserved the Creek nation a full generation...
Arranged with considerable taste and skill, a collection of some of James Joyce's most important manuscripts and first editions are now on exhibition in the front hall of Widener Library...
...Library's collection is chiefly noted for a very rare group of the works of John Playford, an English music publisher of the late seventeenth century. To the casual viewer, Playford's "An Introduction to the Skill of Music" may appear very striking, since it provides first-hand information of the ideas which people held about music...
Hence, the proud feat of Coach Jack Carr's eleven calls for recognition. It is the result of a three hour grind of practice every day of the season. It is the fruit of an acquired skill and precision only appreciated by those who have played the game, never by the spectators. It is the work of much more than an aggregation of the individual stars which it possessed; it is the work of a team, co-operating completely, and molded by fine coaching. Though soccer is nominally a minor sport, such an eleven has truly earned the right...