Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then, by God,' he shouted, 'you'll not leave this room!'" After that, although at times, through the author's skill, we feel like laughing or smiling, we have neither the time nor the breath, but are carried along in a hurting rush of excitement and adventure. As a final word, one that cannot be spoken for many contemporary writers, it might be said that if there is one characteristic that stands out in the book, it is the author's eminent good taste...
England claims to have given birth to sculling, which is its national outdoor summer pastime, as baseball is ours. But today sculling is being universally popularized, perhaps because of its many good results. Skill, endurance, and grit are the attributes of a good scuiler, and these same elements are necessary to men in all walks of life, so whatever your indulgences may be in sculling, they certainly will not be altogether fruitless...
...practice, Coach Young is relying on the Freshman nine to put up good opposition through its batting and pitching strength. This latter work will fall to E. C. Herrman Jr. '25, who may be replaced by Philip Spalding '25. These two yearling pitchers have been showing exceptional speed and skill in the recent work-outs...
...knows whether the firemen were unconsciously slow in putting out that fire and whether, therefore, entirely unnecessary damage resulted, or on the other hand were extraordinarly quick and effective and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property and a good many lives by their skill and courage...
...habitual outstanding excentricities of phrase and mental twist. The real parodist gets inside of his victim's mind, and compels him, not only in his own phrase and vocabulary but in his own kind of mental operation, to make fun of himself. Perhaps the beet example of this deadly skill in modern literature is that of Charles Stuart Calverly, that most brilliant of Victorian pranksters, who fairly reincarnated the very personality of his victims, An able citizen he, by the way, and of university fame; he still stands as the only undergraduate who ever won the Chancelors' prizes at both...