Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...semi-final matches which eliminated Army and Penn from the struggle, Princeton's play was somewhat weaker than that displayed in its victory over Yale; while the Harvard quartet, dominated by all-around skill of Davis, maintained a consistent, telling steadiness. The scores of the two semi-final matches were: Princeton 11, Penn 8, and Harvard 10, Army...
...form a travelogue version of the eternal triangle. The variations on the theme are original in the highest degree, in fact there is at one point some uncertainty as to whether Miss Tobin or Mr. Young is taking the female corner of the situation. The latter's excessive skill at basting a ham and doing the housework while his wife works at the office, casts a shadow over his little menage which threatens to darken it forever. However, by devious remedies, his cuckolding is averted and his manliness reaffirmed in the end. Genevieve Tobin, as the lovely woman who stooped...
...either substantiated or dispelled. Granting, for the sake of argument, that treaties with an overturned and incomplete government are merely academic in the face of a vital threat to national safety, there is still a certain overzealous arrogance in Japan's foreign policy which even Mr. Kawakami's skill can not explain away. The present book deals also with the structure and problems of the new government of Manchoukuo, and expresses the pious hope that Chinese reorganization will soon permit the Manchurians to return to the bosom of a really national Chinese state. In all of which, we are left...
...Galloway, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington. Galloway and Armstrong are predominantly showmen. Galloway plays no instrument, sings with his orchestra in a bleating, high-pitched voice, relies partly for his effects on his white dress-suit with ludicrously long tails. Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own. He is happy strutting before any good hot band where he can introduce himself as "The Reverend Satchel Mouth" and proceed to triple-tongue a cornet at incredible speed...
...Pangborn's] experience and skill he found himself, upon his return to America, merely the co-pilot of an inexperienced youngster named Herndon. . . . It was clearly understood [at the start] that Pangborn was to be the pilot and that Herndon was to be a sort of glorified passenger and relief pilot if the occasion warranted. ... As a professional flyer I have no more sympathy with a Herndon who will deliberately convert a scientific undertaking into a personal publicity stunt, than I have with a Hutchinson [George R. Hutchinson, father of the 'Flying Family' which cracked...