Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will preach in the Chapel on November 26. And we were reminded of the fine legends with which Mr. Lucius Beebe was accustomed to clothe the Rev. Mr. Brown. According to this saga, Mr. Brown was an "Ecclesiastical Barnum," who brightened his heyday by acquiring a considerable skill in ventriloquism. It appears that it is never difficult for a preacher to evoke attention from his audience by calling out upon the heavens and its inmates. But, if Mr. Lucius Beebe is to be credited, The Rev. Mr. Brown used not only to call out, but to receive appropriate answers...
...James's success is due to his scientific elimination of the faulty avenues of approach, and to the peculiar skill with which he follows his own. The Jackson of Summer was a man who played a role in political movements; Bassett sought vainly to imbue life into notes which scarcely left his library cubicle; Parton's was the unmodified hero of local tradition. Taking cue from his Pulitzer prize "Raven" of 1929, Mr. James meticulously introduces the reader to the individuals with whom Jackson came into contact, and allows "Old Hickory" to evolve his own character through the medium...
...most satisfying, this is also the most difficult method. But the character artist of the "Raven" has lost none of his salty skill. John Quincy Adams is the "thin-lipped, perspiring New Englander, who had spent a third of his life abroad"; James Monroe "The raw-boned, six-foot President . . . a shy man, an able lieutenant, though a mediocre chief." There is young "Capt. Fort, speaking freely and a trifle importantly"; and plump little Rachel, "a frontier woman, clinging to the fragile images of a bygone day that had witnessed her last touch with happiness." Mr. James sketches these...
...Rumbling" is a word unknown in U. S. aviation. Mr. Simmonds defined it as the practice of using a plane's engines to help it into an airport "instead of using proper skill and judgment in gliding to the desired point . . . without help from the engines." He viewed with alarm the danger of an engine cutting out while the pilot is rumbling in. Moreover, he contended that habitual reliance on engine power causes a pilot to lose his ability to make a forced landing "deadstick" if necessary. Oldtime pilots prefer not to rumble, Mr. Simmonds found; but operators insist...
...Francis Adams put up in 1925, 30½ points to Miss Whittelsey's 28¼. Distantly related to Boston's famed society athlete Eleanora Sears, Ruth Sears won the championship for Cohasset in 1925 and 1926, has not competed for it since 1927. Added to her sailing skill last week was her knowledge of conditions. She does most of her racing in a Manchester boat, knows Cohasset harbor well because she has sailed there since she was six. In Cohasset, Ruth Sears is almost as famed as Lorna Whittelsey is at Greenwich, where she started to sail...