Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caught the sheets and proceeded without a hitch. Once, to the dismay of the accompanying violins, the piano made an unexpected departure from the score, necessitating a momentary halt. "My fault," apologized the professor gravely, and resumed the cadenza. Prolonged applause honored this coolness as much as the technical skill, but loud cries of "Encore, Erskine!" did not distract the whimsical professor from his next business of moment-smoking a backstage cigaret...
...House of Windsor (originally Saxe-Coburg und Gotha) pulses with the same blood as his. His father, "Foxy Ferdinand," first Tsar of Bulgaria, "peer of Edward VII among royal diplomats," boldly declared the independence of the principality of Bulgaria in 1908, and proceeded to erect it with consummate skill into the present "little tsardom...
...What can his Britannic Majesty do with great skill in six seconds...
...long at the grain of white rice with its Koranic minutiae, found it a perfect symbol of food for the starving soul, bought it for $500. Neither scribe nor buyer knew that in England three and a half centuries ago one Peter Balesius (1547-1610) had been even more skilled in micrography, had written within the circle of an English penny the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Decalogue, two short prayers in Latin, his own name, motto, day of the month, year of the Lord, and reign of the Queen (Elizabeth). Nor did any of these know that...
...sentimentally of motherhood, but she painted her concept like a realist; her children's eyes were the holy, sightless eyes of Correggio's cherubs but their bodies were the bodies of minute Frenchmen, hired for thirty francs a week in a Paris atelier, and drawn with surpassing skill. The great museums began to buy her pictures. Very few are privately owned-only those which she put on sale in March, 1924, when her doctor told her she was going blind. Like many an American of artistic intelligence, she was far better known in Europe than...