Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Le Gallienne's production of "L'Aiglon" is unquestionably a fine one. The technics of the play have been mastered with admirable skill, the sets designed with an artistry which elicits well-deserved applause, and the company chosen with excellent discrimination. It is indeed unfortunate that this wealth of talent has been wasted on an unhappy choice of vehicle, but it must be admitted with all due respect to the dramatiser of Cyrano that "L'Aiglon" is a poor play. Restand may have believed that Napoleon's son offered the material for the creation of a modern Hamlet...
...group of Harvard players who became National champions, Coach Cowles considers William P. Dixon '24, Melville P. Baker '22, and Herbert N. Rawlins, Jr. '27 as exponents of wall, corner and drop shots. Relying on skill in placing shots and using accuracy rather than sheer speed these players worked up to the top in the national ranks...
Doctor of the Year was Allan Roy Dafoe whose skill and commonsense as a family physician the Dionne quintuplets could last week thank for the fact that they were seven months old and weighed an aggregate...
...Rabkin gave the world the coin-operated electric digger. This glass-encased device has nervous metal claws on the end of a shaft which is manipulated by a row of dials outside. The shaft hangs over a pile of hard candies. With a little money and a lot of skill a player can so jiggle the dials that the claws will fish out of the candy a lady's compact or a silver ash tray...
...York the oldtime slot machine which turns out grimy pieces of chewing gum at the drop of a coin is illegal as soon as it is converted into a money-paying gambling device. But the pin game is a game of skill, according to a ruling of the Department of Licenses. Last week the License Commissioner announced that some 10,000 pin game machines had been licensed at $5 a machine. Wiseacres estimated that another 25,000 machines are being operated in the city without licenses. An organization called the Skill Games Board of Trade was formed last year...