Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Backed by a group of prominent Icelandic physicians, Dr. Tomasson issued a public statement that the "Mussolini of Iceland," famed Herra Jónas Jónsson, boss politician, Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastics, is a lunatic, suggested that if his skill and that of his associates is not sufficient to diagnose Herra Jónsson as mad, then by all means let the world's foremost psychiatric authorities be summoned to Reykjavik...
After their win over the weak St. Mark's aggregation at the opening of the season, the 1933 nine dropped four contests in a row, all the games showing up the lack of baseball skill that is contained in the present Freshman class. Last Saturday the Freshmen were scheduled to meet the Samuel Johnson Academy forces, a team that had been beaten only a few times and a well running machine that was doped utterly to blank the Freshman team. Playing the best brand of baseball that they have exhibited to date the first year nine came off with...
Says he: Publishers Simon & Schuster have most successfully developed the art of "panicking" the public into buying their books-books often intrinsically worthless. Says Critic Notch: "Anyone who reads Trader Horn at a distance of years sees it for what it is: senile drivel touched up with loving skill by a third-rate novelist." Notch attacks the Book Clubs: "The intellectual appeal of the Book Clubs is simple, frank-and dishonest. . . . Here [in having well-known critics select the books] is a calculated misunderstanding of the critic's function: which is to produce good literature...
...authority on backgammon is Grosvenor Nicholas, Manhattan clubman, retired wine importer. Last week his book, issued in 1928 when nobody cared, enjoyed high sales. Backgammoner Nicholas himself, urbane, quiet-spoken, contradicted his own contention that there is no skill in the game by winning, in one afternoon, 35 games of backgammon in a club (New York Racquet & Tennis) where sometimes 1,000 games are played a day. Writes he: "It is unnecessary to preserve silence, always so depressing. The disturbing presence of the fair sex . . . is never unwelcome. Where there is no concentration, there can be no distraction...
...mouths of tired businessmen or sophomores in college. Nor has the cast of Hotel Universe, with the exceptions of Katherine Alexander as Ann Field, Glenn Anders as Pat Farley, Ruth Gordon as Lily Malone and Phyllis Povah as Hope Ames, managed to master its extraordinary moods with the customary skill of Guild performers. The only completely successful detail of Hotel Universe is the setting, by Lee Simonson, of a terrace touched by the light of a July evening on the Mediterranean, a pavilion for illusion and despair...