Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bread and butter. Presumably, the amateur turns his back on Mammon and unselfishly offers his talents and his time on the altar of public service. Growing boys are crying out for an athletic example, old men's eyes will flash with ancient fire at the spectacle of his skill and might, young girls will realize that none but the athlete deserves the fair. Nevertheless, he is flat broke. The adulating world, he now says, must remedy his situation; this is the picture of buncombe which springs into most people's heads...
...success at dodging tackles is prognostic of success at dodging issues, and if great skill at passing a football carries with it equal skill at passing the buck, there is no real reason why "the flying iceman" should not make a successful candidate. It is true, one difficulty does present itself. Mr. Grange is not yet twenty-five, which is the minimum age for Representatives. After much deep thinking on the part of his admirers, however, it was agreed that if this objection should be hurled at them, they would retort, "Remember Henry Clay...
...BUTTER AND EGG MAN-A satirical tale of the theatre, heavily buttered with brilliant lines and deftly egged on by the skill of Gregory Kelly...
...impossible to commend this presentation of "Hedda Gabler" as anything that will meet with much appreciation, but it is possible to commend the daring and skill of a stock company which will try Ibsen and get away passably with...
Since there were few alarms in the vicinity, the engine company sought other fields to conquer, and exercised their skill abroad, particularly in Boston. Following their labors on behalf of Boston's citizens, the University firefighters invariably held a dinner or supper in town before returning to Cambridge, by way of celebrating the conflagration. Little is known of these dinners, but it appears that water, which flowed so freely from their pumps, was little used as a beverage once the fire had been quenched...