Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coach decided to move the veteran catcher of the 1937 squad, George Black-wood, to short while installing himself as catcher, to be better able to keep an eye on his team. Tom Bilodean and Dick Walsh were pitching for the first year men, but in spite of their skill the former mentor of the team managed to garner two hits out of his four times...
...develops into a sort of "Candido." Throughout the whole book there persists the same strange humor to lighten the continued examinations of subjects gross and primitive that are usually neglected in print. In many places M. Destouches has seized upon psychological phases of post-war French attitudes with great skill, capitalizing the fact that he is working with new material, but to the English reading public the conviction and justification of the book falter seriously after the treatment...
Captain Transue of the Elis is perhaps the most serious threat that Coach Clark Hedder's men will have to pit them skill against. He calls it a bad day for his game if by any chance he happens to sheet anything less than something in the bow seventies...
...Arliss plays the character role of Nathan Rothschild, and before that of the penurious elder Rothschild, superbly well. It requires great skill and considerable sympathy to act the part of a member of a despised race, but Mr. Arliss is entirely equal to the task. It is unfortunate from the historical point of view that the producers have seen fit to make Mr. Arliss's role far more pleasant on the screen than it was in actual life. Under Hollywood hands Nathan Rothschild becomes an heroic, altruistic, entirely admirable person. For example, the movie shows Rothschild risking every cent...
...safety of the building his disposition finds more equable surroundings. To his class in Music 4 he simplifies and explains the technicalities of the great composers from Bach to Stravinsky. To accomplish this, he uses both his skill as a pianist and his serious, but rather whimsical, method of lecturing. The result is a satisfactory course for men who want to gain an appreciation of music. He may be criticized for his lack of poise on the lecture platform, which characterizes a Merriman' or an Kittredge, but his fortunately is subsidiary part of his teaching...