Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...billiard room. Now those billiard rooms have been turned into breakfast rooms, gun rooms, dens. Billiards, no longer smart, is played and watched now only by people who really like it. In no sport except championship golf is there the same concentration of spectators on a delicate feat of skill, the success of which depends entirely on nervous control-as when, in a room filled with smoke, and banked on four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening waistcoat, bending in a pour of white light over a green table...
...rest of the issue contains poetry, prose, book and theatre reviews. The poetry shows technical skill and sounds very well, but would it be too much to ask that the Advocate print some time, just for fun, a poem which could be understood by the ordinary lay mind after a single reading...
...suggestion of Heywood Broun offers at least an intelligent solution, if not a panacea for tennis ills. To rate players as professional upon a basis of skill would do away with the problem of compensation, and the rank would be in the nature of a healthful prize; Helen Wills could then meet Lenglen on a salary basis with no questions asked; and young Doeg could resume his studies when his services were no longer needed in defense of America's athletic reputation...
...Filled with pity, and remembering his Master's art, a Catholic priest, by taking the girl to the Red Cross, enabled this Mary to see. Great miracle among great miracles was again brought to pass, this time by mundane skill...
...scientists this despatch lacked professional interest. Such an operation, although delicate and demanding high skill in the use of fine knives, had been done previously and with relative frequency. But rarely before had human interest been keyed to so lofty a pitch...