Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect of the story is made, the theme is developed, as themes should be, entirely in action. A girl with every advantage of noble family, education, beauty, health, strength, physical skill, intellect, and emotional sensitiveness lives with the freedom of wealth and position in the most delightful places on the Continent and in America, associates with the most agreeable acquaintances, companions, and friends, . . and dies. And the reader, not the author, closes the book with the conviction that for Cerise D'Atree, and perhaps for all others, life is a futile and desperate thing painful to leave, but terrible...
...effect of the story is made, the theme is developed as themes should be, entirely in action. A girl with every advantage of noble family, education, beauty, health, strength, practical skill, intellect, and emotional sensitiveness lives with the freedom of wealth and position in the most delightful places on the Continent and in America, associates with the most agreeable acquaintances, companions, and friends . . . and dies. And the reader, not the author, closes the book with the conviction that for Cerise D'Atree, and perhaps for all others, life is a futile and desperate thing painful to leave, but terrible...
...witnesses agreed as to the details of the riot or even as to the nature of the missile. And the "skill" shown by the jury in sifting the evidence of course only made matters worse by introducing technicalities into a mere case of right and wrong...
...Probably contributions for a "Hudson patrol" will soon be solicited, to keep visitors at a harmless distance. But the precedent of secret crew practice thus auspiciously inaugurated may help solve a most exasperating local problem. Hitherto, urchins frequenting the banks and bridges of the Charles have displayed their native skill by dropping assorted missiles upon the straining oarsmen passing below, often with deadly effect. If they could be solemnly impressed with the fact that all crew practice is secret, they might be persuaded to "have eyes but see not" and to reserve exhibitions of accurate hurling for the local diamonds...
Everyone who has followed Mr. Whiling this season on his expository excursions into the music of France and Hungary and Germany knows his planistic skill as well as the judiciousness of his selections. It is not an exaggeration to say that his audiences of this winter will look forward with no little anticipation to his return next year...