Word: skilling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...best artists, as she is one of the most popular. From the first story, "Horsie," in which she creates a feeling of pathos in the reader by firmly withholding it in herself, to the derisive portrait of an actress called "Glory in the Daytime," her objective skill never falters in making vivid ordinary conversations motivated only by busy curiosity and vapid malice. No one else has her ability to make casual human types seem abysmally fatuous. Just as good in their way are the three or four lighter pieces included in the book. Nothing could be funnier than "The little...
...means the ordinary. A staid couple has committed a murder, and lived on to forget it, remaining quite a pleasant pair. One girl has lived in incest, and ends with suicide. A man loses wife and place because of gross and public cowardice. It is a tribute to the skill of the author that all these themes, so bloody and thundery when related in skeleton, impress the reader of the book as the most natural and commonplace. This fact is perhaps the most convincing proof that Maugham has succeeded in portraying reactions and motives in a way to jibe with...
...dangerously misleading because 1) it presumes a skill in diagnosis and therapy on the part of a layman that is ridiculous to believe he may possess. . . . It would have been wiser for you to have replied that any form of self-treatment in acute diarrhoea is unsafe and that the best thing to do is to find a competent physician as quickly as possible...
...proudly as he flaunts the orchid in his buttonhole, mighty Manhattan Lawyer Samuel Untermyer flaunts his Jewish blood. The skill which earns him fattest fees he gives gratis to the Jewish crusade to boycott German goods until Adolf Hitler's anti-Jewish campaign shall end (TiME, Nov. 13 et ante). Last week found Boycotter Untermyer a passenger on the cruising S. S. Monarch of Bermuda. Down to the dining saloon he prowled to inspect arrangements for the Captain's dinner. To his horror he found paper caps, paper flowers, tin rattles, fish horns, surprise crackers, rolls of confetti...
...club team, but soon warmed up and took the second game 15-4. He took the third game easily, but let up in the fourth, barely winning, 18-16. According to Harry Cowles, Sargent will be national tournament material when he has added experience to skill. Glidden also started poorly, losing the first game, and then, over-coming a slight nervousness, taking the last three easily...