Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Brentano go the laurels. With not a little skill and with a great deal of lively humor he takes us to a dress rehearsal at the Hollis Street Theatre, introduces us to Sir Herbert, permits us to hear their conversation, and, best of all, Sir Herbert's managerial commands and witticisms addressed to the actors on the stage. It is distressing to find so capable a reporter referring to the theatre as a "veritable fairyland," a phrase now in good use only in the Woman's Auxiliary Alliance of the Osterville Baptist Church...
Thousands of us who did not know Norman Prince personally have watched his career with great interest and have been thrilled by his courage and skill; and now that he has given his life to the cause of liberating France from oppression, we cannot feel that his name should not be commemorated in some enduring manner to serve as an example to the youth of the future...
...Holding is prohibited by the rules because it does not belong in the game of football. It is unfair play and it eliminates skill. The game is to advance the ball by strategy, skill and speed, without holding your opponent...
...primarily social, a number of concerts being given each year in and around Boston. The instrumental clubs are composed of men who play a number of instruments,--mandolin, banjo, banjeaurine, guitar, violin, 'cello, mandola, piccolo, traps, etc. Members are required, except in cases of men of marked ability and skill, to perform upon two instruments...
Election to the Musical Clubs is dependent upon fulfilling a certain requirement of service,-faithful attendance at rehearsals and concerts, and participation in two dual concerts with Yale; and of skill, determined by trials held at the beginning of each college year. From these trials the men are selected, who show the requisite ability, and these men after fulfilling the service requirement, are eligible for election to full membership in the clubs...