Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...terms, the story of a woman unable to forget the hypnotic eyes of a suitor. But beneath this there is a story told in symbols, a story of the lure of the great mystery of the sea. To blend these two moods is a task requiring great skill. Miss Yurka and her Actors' Theater company meet the demands at times and at others they fail...
...staff met them at the pier, took them to City Hall where Mayor James J. Walker had grateful remarks ready for all Belgium. Royally did it respond at its concert for the benefit of the Reconstruction Hospital, playing symphonic music according to the arrangements of Leader Arthur Prevost with skill and spirit well calculated to rival the bands of John Philip Sousa and the U.S. Marines, or even the historic German Band which attended Chicago's World's Fair...
...American aircraft show in Detroit early in April, glider jockeys are scheduled to show their skill...
...Tiajuana stand the remnants of a disappearing race-the U.S. bartender. Many a man among them will tell heart-breaking tales of better days when he served drinks at the Waldorf in Manhattan, at Boston's Parker House or at Coffee Dan's in San Francisco. Their skill confirms their stories and strong men weep gently into their old-fashioned whiskey cocktails to think such souls are passing...
...divergent theories of spring football practice outlined by Coach Can hell of Dartmouth and Coach Horween of Harvard are strikingly representative of the types of football played by the two teams. For years Dartmouth has planned her attack on the lines of the open game, which requires speed and skill in handling the ball. To perfect players in these requirements Coach Hawley, and now Can hell after him, employed exercises of all kinds, as remote is could be imagined from the old hard-driving, hauling football which was popular for so long. Tumbling and skipping rope would have seemed dainty...