Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David Manners puts a great deal of subtlety and skill into his portrayal of Eden Whiteoaks, the poet; and Kay Johnson as the girl who discovers his poems for a publishing house and fails in love on meeting him is likewise effective...
...empire-building. By transferring his supplies from trucks to mule and camel, General Auchinleck advanced his base into the Haji's plain. Then he rushed construction of a water line and the extension of the Gandab Road through the Pass. Said dispatches: "The nature of the territory and the skill of the soldiers as mountain climbers place the operations among the most notable undertaken by the Indian Army in modern times...
...Celtic character is the most charming and the most comical of human phenomena, His Family Tree is principally a frame for James Barton's elaborate embroideries in brogue, blarney, eye-twin-kling and jig-steps. That an obsolete comicstrip narrative is not actually offensive is due to the skill of Joel Sayre and John Twist who adapted it for the screen. Good shot: Barton's skit of a drunk trying to read a newspaper which ends when he has rolled it helplessly into a soggy ball...
Used as early as the 15th Century to hunt badgers, dachshunde are also useful for rabbits, foxes, woodchucks, any other animal which goes to ground. In a field trial credit is given not only for finding & trailing game but also for the energy & skill with which a hound enters its quarry...
...Shields & Co. which is run by Brother Paul who owns Challenge, waved to the sudden whistle of 100 spectator boats, largest fleet that has ever followed a U. S. six-metre boat race. Beaten by nearly three minutes but grinning in honest approval of his opponent's skill, jovial little Magnus Konow, who looks like a browner, balder copy of the onetime Crown Prince of Germany, jumped out on the float, scrambled up the long steps to the clubhouse piazza. There he found the cold comfort that Seawanhaka custom provides for a defeated challenger: first drink...