Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Talented Freshman entertainers will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their skill next Sunday night when the '41 Union Committee will sponsor a Yardling Amateur Hour, it was announced last night by Langdon P. Marvin, Chairman of the Committee...
...disclosure was made public late last night when an unidentified stool-pigeon reported to the Harvard headquarters that the Elis had "nefariously inveigled their honorable contestants" by substituting the more effective large balls for the more skill-testing small ones, which the Crimson police used...
...road runner pet. A rattlesnake approaches. Without hesitation the bird attacks, head feathers fanned and wings tensely spread. Like a matador it lures the snake into striking, easily swings out of reach. Like a matador it waits and feints till the enemy tires, then kills with swift skill...
...With skill--for prophet-like, you also swayed...
William Lynn as the diminuitive hero is charmingly casual throughout his confessions and the gradual confirmation of them. His role is so exaggerated that it could be filled only by an actor of the right appearance as well as of the requisite skill, and fortunately Mr. Lynn has both. Cecilia Loftus is a splendid old rake of a mother-in-law, who surveys the career of her son-in-law with no illusions, and advises her daughter his wife to be faithful or the opposite with a realistic view to the husband's fortunes. Blanche Sweet is quite satisfactory...