Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exported for the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes and other foreign lotteries when they might be kept at home. People who agree with her to the extent of paying $1 to join her Conference automatically become eligible to enter a "Selection Sweepstakes." Here they are called upon to display their skill and judgment by arranging in order of desirability a list of 16 ways the Government could spend the money it might raise by legalizing lotteries. For best arrangement: $20,000. Other prizes total...
...once the skill he had been acquiring by years of hack work was set free. Still a back-country village, Pittsburgh was just the place for a man with an embittered soul, a keen eye for the grotesque and a liking for the rough & tumble life of taverns and streets. David Blythe painted drunks, loafers, pickpockets, runaway horses, grinning bill-collectors, swaying stagecoaches. With warm colors and swift, vigorous draughtsmanship, he poked fun at such everyday events as the rump-bumping scramble for mail in Post Office (see cut) or a lawyer braying at a gaping jury in A Court...
...roster of players, they come upon the name of Waldemar Giese listed eighth under the heading "Basses." Waldemar Giese has stood before them solemnly hugging his big bull fiddle for six years. Nevertheless, few would be able to identify this musician whose consuming ambition has been to exhibit his skill as a soloist. Last week, in Philadelphia's New Century Auditorium, Polish Waldemar Giese at last showed what he could...
...distinguish the distant hounds by their baying, how to tell when they were on the right line. When the year came full circle, Duncan's story and the fox's drew nearer & nearer together. The Cap'n's hunt made up in enthusiasm and skill what it lacked in fanciness. Socially a cut above the night foxhunters, who went to their midnight meets in cars, brought their hounds in scattered couples, it was still democratic enough to include a pickaninny on a mule. But that autumn the Cap'n sold enough of his remaining heirlooms...
...poet will discuss the conditions in our American colleges which are most congenial to artists living in university communities; he will explain the effect that such conditions have on the development of skill and prowess in creative work...