Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shostakovich's choral skill exhibited itself when the peasants rolled the cook in the barrel. The peasants shouted their delight but the music had reason and a sure, compelling rhythm. When the father-in-law caught Katerina wrestling, the horns were again cruelly loud and foreboding. As she climbed the stairs and settled herself in bed, Narrator Hale described her as seeing "visions of the mating beasts and birds. . . . Even the wind bending the tree to its will is a lover, alive, insistent...
...scoring honors, playing a hard-riding, aggressive game to win many a thrilling goal from the opposition. Although he has had the least intercollegiate experience of the three, his outdoor work on Long Island during the summers has made him every bit their equal from the viewpoint of skill...
...lean, ascetic face, Mr. Nathan now boasts a growing waistline that causes him to toy with the idea of substituting sailing for such strenuous pastimes as fencing and tennis. He will no longer play the cello, for his professional cellist wife, Nancy Wilson, makes him embarrassed about his inferior skill...
Albert Sauveur, whose skill in the field of metallurgy won him the Elliott Cresson gold medal in 1913 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, has resigned the Gorden McKay chair of Metallurgy and Metallography...
Anybody but W.C. Fields would have a difficult time making "It's a Gift" an entertaining cinema, but the premier genius of cinematic humor has already proven his ability to diffuse even the dullest of material with a spirit of universally appealing humor, and by dial of his admirable skill "It's a Gift" is a truly amusing film. The general make up is typical of the sort of stuff against which Fields has to contend but he produces two especially tickling scenes. The age-old struggle of the male against the female for the bathroom mirror is most laughably...