Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this day, Americans will not believe that Lincoln's achievements were built on consummate skill at political patronage and courthouse politics, just as Gandhi's were built on shrewd lawyer tricks and diplomatic maneuvering. Charles Francis Adams, great with a sense of historic mission, called on Lincoln before departing for the London legation. Lincoln had little to say of high politics. Adams, being an Adams, never got over the fact that what Lincoln really had on his mind that fateful day was the patronage struggle for the Chicago postmastership. *Gandhi, like Lincoln, had his family sorrows. His first...
...Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany once beckoned her to his box and gave her a diamond stickpin he was wearing; Adolf Hitler presented her with a huge picture of himself in a silver frame, flatteringly inscribed; Benito Mussolini simply said: "I wish I could skate like her." Besides skill and showmanship, Sonja possessed a talent for covering up the few technical mistakes she made...
...chain reaction that led to such drollery started in 1876, when, according to the chroniclers, Ralph Curtis '76, "celebrated for his skill at caricature," Samuel Sherwood '76, "a clever draughtsman," and Arthur Sherwood '77, "the life of every party which he joined," put their moustaches together in a back room of Matthews Hall and founded "The Harvard Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest issues--a collector's item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls...
...earning a modern living, trains them superbly well, better than any more college courses could hope or pretend. This is the age of the deadline; if a man would earn more than $65 a month he must forever do too much in too little time. It is the basic skill of our world, and it is one you learn getting 200 inches of copy downstairs to Art before one o'clock. As a useful byproduct you learn to turn night into day. In the daily working of the CRIMSON office comment books a man acquires the habit of candor...
Deborah Kerr makes an entirely credible sister, devoid of the sentimentality that usually befouls religious characters in the movies. David Farrar and Flora Robson play with skill and vitality, while Jean Simmons, the Estella of "Great Expectations," is magnificent as a sensuous Indian girl. Technicolor is made the most of, with some splendid photographic effects, and the only serious fault to be found is that the pace is sometimes too slow. It is a great pity that a picture so excellent in execution and so religious in theme should be chopped up by the censors...