Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Followers of billiards will have a chance to see one of the masters of the game in action when Jake Schaefer, world's 18.2 balkline billiard champion will give an exhibition of his skill at the Union tonight in the Living Room. David McAndless of Chicago, former national amateur 18.2 balkline champion, will meet Schaefer in all the games...
...Hills that has been built out of his earnings. He has never bitten anybody. When, in front of the camera, he springs at a villain, he somehow avoids scratching with his big teeth the throat which he clamps between his jaws with an appearance of ferocity. Despite his unfailing skill at apprehending the villain on the screen, Rin Tin Tin, asleep a few feet away, offered no resistance when robbers burgled Duncan's home last year. He will not take food from anyone but Duncan who talks to him as though he were an intelligent human being. Duncan says...
While another's skill wins death...
...Midtown to Wall Street," with Charles Hamilton Sabin of Guaranty Trust and the late Henry P. Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co. Almost as prime as Chase is among banks is his collection of etchings. Although he has neither the promotional instincts of Charles Edwin Mitchell, nor the international skill of the Warburgs, Mr. Wiggin is famed as a domestic banker, was often called No. 1 U. S. banker before Chase assumed its new position...
...down in flames. The author knows what he is writing about: he was there. Some of the plots: A be-monocled ground officer, never seen in the air, restores the morale of his training unit, which has just lost five pilots in crashes, by a solo flight of extreme skill and daring...