Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Especially fascinating to Cleveland visitors were the works of two famed European experimentalists, Spaniard Pablo Gargallo and Rumanian Constantin Brancusi. Gargallo, who died in 1934, was a blacksmith whose skill with metals helped him to do some of the most intricate abstractions in modern sculpture. His bronze, Prophet (see cut), was a figure constructed half of metal and half of empty space, as a piece of music is built of sound and silence. Brancusi's work was represented by a torso composed of three softly melting cylinders and a bust, Mile Pogany, showing the subject as geometry in meditation...
...Company in 1931. As principal protagonist in one of the finest Siegfrieds in decades, long-legged, prancing Hartmann acted his role as though he were living it, sang and pounded his anvil with energy and musicianship, peeled the armor from sleeping Brunnhilde (Marjorie Lawrence) with a taxidermist's skill. Vocally he wavered once or twice, but he lived up to the excellent reports of his ability which had leaked out from rehearsals...
...joined in presenting 80 yellow roses in a Tiffany vase to Rose Markward Knox as "a birthday remembrance and a token of love, loyalty and appreciation from her business family." This was no empty gesture, for Mrs. Knox, despite her 80 years, still runs Knox with the same vigorous skill that in 30 years has made it a model industry in both profits and employe relations...
...chiefly because King Albert had repeatedly brought him in as an economic counselor whose services previous Belgian Cabinets had found effective, disinterested. Under his expert management as Premier the devaluation of the belga-made inevitable by the devaluation of the currencies of the Great Powers -was carried through with skill and success in sharp contrast to the awful bungling at Paris of the devaluation of the franc (TIME...
...point in the last minute of play. And they have facts on which to base their case. But those who have watched the squad in its practices this fall and have seen the power they are capable of generating, refuse to believe that traditional Eli luck or Clint Frank skill will pull this one out of the fire...