Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...created several new countries and one of them presented to the world a dramatist of recognized skill and undisputed worth. Karl Capek, Czechoslovakian dramatist, was introduced into America by his grim melodrama, "R. U. R." The public accepted it enthusiastically, but in a bewildered fashion. Then came "The Insect Comedy." And then, in the spring of 1924, the Harvard Dramatic Club presented Capek's latest play, "The Makropoulos Secret." This story of a woman who lived 300-years ran successfully in New York...
...several years Madge Kennedy has been one of the most successful liars on the American stage and the excellence of her performance as the adorable liar in "Love in a Mist," current at the New Park, is a surprise to none of her critics. With remarkable skill she has maintained the fiction that she is a young and beautiful girl, and once again she prevails upon an audience willing to be gulled...
...most artistic conception", that "his name is destined to live, to become a classic", this infant who believes American literature a dreary waste and that the "classics" are so much tripe a this pig-tailed mistress of an art most difficult to attain, most demanding, both in skill and experience, justifies the existence of those who, though narrow and crabbed and dogmatic, stick to their guns and send the truths of Aristotelian sanity against the hordes of philanderers in the fields of the liberal arts...
...part in the half hour punting session allotted each afternoon at the beginning of practice. The Harvard leader, who surprised the crowd in the Stadium by taking over the kicking assignment unheralded and averaging better than 41 yards from the line of scrimmage has apparently lost none of the skill he displayed a year ago, and is fairly certain to keep the Crimson well in the running during the remainder of the season. French was in uniform yesterday, spending the bulk of the afternoon practicing passes with Putnam and Guarnaccia...
...tutelage of one Horween, Harvard had learned enough football by Saturday to defeat Dartmouth, which was said to have one of the best teams in the country. Could such a change be wrought in a baseball team in two short weeks? Hardly. Baseball is chiefly a game of skill, and it takes months and sometimes years to build a team which can master its difficult technique. But football is direct combat, and so eleven husky boys can be taught all they have to know in a dozen days of practice...