Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert E. Wernick '38, of Brighton, was announced yesterday as the Haskins Prize winner for the year 1934-35. The prize is awarded annually to the student enrolled in History 1 whose course essay "best combines skill in historical treatment with distinction of literary skill." Wernick's essay, written during the second half-year, was entitled "The Paris Commune...
...tournament is generally selected by members of the squad and other advanced players while the B contests are chosen by players of less skill. The choice, however, remains with the entrant...
...attempts to make each volume of his masterwork intelligible in its own right, the stories are so interwoven that Men of Good Will must be read from the beginning to be appreciated. While Jules Romains excels in his portraits of ambitious and resourceful men and outlines their maneuvers with skill, his characters are for the most part singularly even and controlled individuals. They may be troubled or at peace, but they are not ravaged by the intellectual and emotional passions that lift the characters of Joyce, of Proust, Mann and Dostoevski to more than human stature. In revealing...
...that Robin Herrick, the jocund lyricist of pastoral England, passed, if we may judge from his Hesperides, a riotous four years in St. John's and Trinity Hall, two colleges backing on the placid Cam. Apprenticed to a goldsmith, he later became a parson in Devonshire, but the fine skill of his rejected trade seems to have followed him into the art of juggling with words...
This new comedy is light and gay, largely due to directorial skill and the presence of Fred Astaire's amazing feet. Irving Berlin's music is full of rhythm and melody. Although the "Piecolino" is not a real successor to the "continental," as the blurbs assert, several tunes, notably "Dancing Cheek to Cheek," and "Top Hat," will be favorites for a long time...