Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rare. Perfect control in the rest, excellence of diction, frequent excellence of image and epithet, but nothing more. All the promise in the world, but Body of This Death has not been judged as promise but as performance. So far Miss Bogan merely shows great aptitude and considerable technical skill...
...decision probably cost him his life. The plane was seen to crumple and fall. It has been found minus the motor, but the closest search has revealed no trace of the aviator. Mrs. Winifred Sperry has seen her husband survive so many hazardous experiences, thanks to his daring and skill as a pilot, that she still hopes the aviator may be found, but with each passing day the certainty of an irreparable loss to American aeronautics becomes greater...
...rule does away with all that. There will be no more games decided by one man's skill in foul shooting. As a result there will be fewer fouls. Many teams have been coached to draw fouls deliberately. That practice will stop, or at least be materially lessened...
...folk music. Pieces by Bortnianski, Gretchaninov, Moussorgsky, and a synagogue service by Arthur Foote are on the program. Mrs. Bertha Cushing Child will act as reader. This is one of the really good choirs of America; led by Mr. Henry Gideon, an accomplished and versatile musician of great skill and magnetism, it will give what promises to be one of the eventful concerts of the present season...
...actors are given a harder task. It is not easy to be a clever, animated picture, even with a gilt frame for adornment and it is, on the whole, rather surprising that they seem as human as they do. Beyond a doubt the reason for this lies in the skill of Collier, Burrell, Sanchez, and of Miss Googins. Collier especially, in gesture and intonation, carries into the part of the liar a vivacity and sang-froid that saves several dull scenes and heightens them all--a performance ably abetted by Burrell's lesser role. The Club will lose a great...