Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brattle Hall (and I think that even its most ardent supporters will admit that there were a few blemishes in this concert) and still have acquitted itself very creditably in Springfield four days later. I grant that Mr. Thomson was harsh in using such phrases as "tender and devoted skill" concerning a soloist who deserved a great deal of praise, but the august Pierian did not one whit enhance its dignity by replying in like terms...
...fable of the fox and the grapes. I feel called upon to ask why he should have interested his famous Tangos to be played by a "Village Band," why he should indulge in a play of terms like "sheet-music trade, "familiar restaurant repotory," and "a tender and devoted skill," and why as a candidate for position of Conductor of the Pierian Orchestra last fall, he should now cry for another Davison...
...long untasted. The University, without undue inflation of its hopes, is glad to find in these scores the augury of the oncoming season. With this happy beginning, the track team must go on with a lighter heart. And with no slackening of the thorough application of thought, strength, and skill toward the approaching struggles, the University hopes to be as proud of the final record as it is of the success of this initial tryout...
Said Mr. Hughes: "If you ask me what I considered to be the crown of his [Mr. Root's] endeavor, I should say it was his skill in cutting through the entanglements which stood in the way of the establishment of a permanent court of international justice. His suggestion as to the method of selecting judges made that court possible...
First, she should alter the stuff that Jimmy Hussey has to do. Thin and strikingly Semitic for an Irish youth (which he really is), he has a way of making you laugh. His present lines and lyrics prove his skill; you laugh anyway. Cortez and Peggy dance, and have danced better. There is a jazz band that plays long and loudly. Two or three seasons ago, this was a good novelty...