Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women and the antic gaieties of Hatchways and Fawcett. is ascribable to the author of the play, Kate Parsons. That it makes of The Commodore Marries so funny, so human, so sad a play is doubtless due largely to the direction of Arthur Hopkins and to the sympathy and skill of Walter Huston's acting...
...Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes) has other good ones in the sermon in which, dressed as a locomotive engineer, he describes the cannonball express to hell. Sometimes local color dams up the story, but mostly, in spite of the temptation of spirituals, it is under control. Vidor's skill as a picturemaker is enough alone to make Hallelujah one of the best films of the year. Best actress : brown-yellow Nina Mae McKinney. not yet 18, who became a Manhattan chorus girl at 12, was picked by Vidor from the chorus of Blackbirds. Best tune: "The End of the Road...
...Lancashire must put its house in order," declared Scot MacDonald in a potent manifesto to the press. "Taking the industry as a whole it requires a far more active co-operative organization so that the skill of the operatives, the natural advantages of the county of Lancashire and its inherited opportunities in reputation and market may be used to the utmost under modern conditions...
...trading contains some elements of chance. . . . Elements of chance do not necessarily indicate gambling. . . . The throwing of dice, shooting of craps, the purchase of lottery tickets are all clearly gambling, for there is no element of skill or intelligence involved. Chance and skill enter into card playing, chance and knowledge into horse racing. . . . Purchase of lots in a new community is partly based on chance and partly on knowledge...
...Young Giants are potential champions, restrained only by their poor pitching. Individual instances are Young Melvin Ott (not yet 21) of the "Giants" and Young Jimmy Foxx (just past 21) of the "Athletics." Player Ott has made 26 home-runs, is hitting around .324, fields with speed and skill. He is an outfielder, gifted with a rare throwing arm. The "Giants" acquired him at the age of 16, without any Minor League experience...