Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decidedly the brighter half of the offerings. Kitty Carlisle who has stepped gracefully from New Orleans to front line chorus to Hollywood and the arms of Bing Crosby sings in manner attractive. Phil Cook hasn't changed in all these years. There is also a bicycle stunt of considerable skill...
...readers, fewer critics, picked out of the spate of last year's novels a rich and strange book called The Salzburg Tales, by an unknown Australian author named Christina Stead. With her second, published last week, she made the oversight more remarkable. A needlewoman of extraordinary skill, she has made a lavishly embroidered silk purse out of the sow's ear of realism...
...John Dewey, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Columbia University, gave a radio speech recently, for the WEVD university of the air. In his speech he maintained that the capacity of teachers to produce their "goods,"--intelligence, skill, and character among their pupils, had been curtailed during the depression. The reason for the curtailment was "in part the inability of large numbers to pay taxes, combined with the desire of those able to pay taxes to escape what they regard as a burden." His reference was, of course, only to the educational facilities supported by the government...
There is more than mechanized glamour, cultivated beauty, and enchanting manner to Miss Katherine Hepburn. Yes, definitely more and even if her performance on the boards in "The Lake" was not an overwhelming triumph she is certainly as fascinating and as skilled an actress as the screen can present. "The Little Minister," perhaps even more than "Little Women," is perfectly fitted to the talents of this enchanting woman: A true gem of sentimental romance, Barrie's story has been rendered into a film of haunting loveliness by the restrained skill of its producers and the charm of Miss Hepburn...
...genuine paintings, in very bad condition, to Paul Eugene Cazot, an unknown artist, to be repaired. Cazot did his job much too well. The pair took to copying little-known Millets, then to producing original works of art by Millet. To do this they needed only the skill of Artist Cazot, a chemical analysis of the original Millet paints, and a supply of old canvases, which they bought at the Parisian flea market for two or three francs apiece. When the market for Millets ran low. they produced Monets, Sisleys, Pissarros. The forging of Millet paintings was greatly helped...