Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures in the "best" category. "The Lady Vanishes" is one of the finest things ever to come from England. It is a directorial masterpiece, for Alfred Hitchcock has taken discouraging material--an ordinary spy mystery--and has, characteristically, brewed from it a tense, gripping drama. With his uncanny skill in ordering the presentation of his material, he succeeds in building up punishing suspense, and, moreover, manages to do what few, if any, other directors can do--maintain constant interest, even down to the most casual remarks and the most inconsequential nuances. Comedy elements and other extraneous situations are introduced with...
...tone of voice, still a great teller of racy stories and amiable spiller of confidences, he wasted no bitterness last week on the men that so hastily and so clumsily deserted his country. His chief criticism of the Munich deal, said he in private, was that "It lacked skill, elegance. It was so, what shall I say, middle class-and I am the son of a peasant." As for his own people: "We are tough...
...abreast, paraded out of Biscayne Bay. It was the opening of the 99-day Metropolitan Miami Fishing Tournament and 2,000 deep-sea anglers, who for weeks had been dreaming of sailfish dancing on their tails, were off for the Gulf Stream four miles away to try their luck, skill, and endurance...
...order to graduate from Hiram, the student must take part in athletics for two years and pass skill tests in a whole variety of team and individual indoor and outdoor, sports. Football, baseball, basketball, tennis, etc. are of course included; so is wrestling...
...girls have the same participation requirements as the boys except that they have grades and credit for sports instead of skill tests, and of course, they do not compete with the boys. Cheecrleading may be good enough for meet weatern college girls, but not so for the amazons of Hiram...