Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...except for a few sickly sketches in the Hawthorne manner but without the Hawthorne skill, James, wrote few ghost stories until he was 48. Then he burst out with a spate of them. Editor Leon Edel speculates that this middle-aged absorption in the supernatural helped James compensate for the critical and popular rejection of his later novels and dismally unsuccessful plays ; in the ghostly stories, James could work off his resentments, regrets and anxieties...
With remarkable skill, this single-cylinder fantasy has somehow been kept in motion by Director Lloyd Bacon (Mother-Is a Freshman) and Writer Valentine Davies (Miracle on 34th Street), who apparently have a gift for making a fairly funny movie out of a downright silly idea. Even so, without the sly comedy sense of Veteran Milland and the pug-faced antics of Paul Douglas, Every Spring could easily have struck out in the second reel...
Handicap number two to the Mastedens was the battered equipment provided them by the Weld Boat Club. It is a testament to Ducey's coaching skill that he managed to meld a first class crew while using a million of decrepit, disregarded versify shells and cars...
...Truman pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster on the riband of General Clay's Distinguished Service Medal and read a praise-packed citation he had written himself. "General Clay," intoned the President, ". . . proved himself not only a soldier in the finest tradition . . . not only an administrator of rare skill, but a statesman of the highest order...
...mica). Today, Brazil is the cornerstone of the U.S. policy of hemispheric defense. Brazil, which benefited greatly from U.S. wartime expenditures, looks to the U.S. in peacetime for the aid that private and public capital can give to the building of the country. Brazilians want to tap U.S. technical skill for the development of the natural resources that are spread in abundance over the world's fourth largest nation. In area, only the U.S.S.R., China and Canada are larger than Brazil...