Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...failing to report on the fiftieth jubilee tournament of the National Archery Association held in Chicago Aug. 12 to 15. Archery though not so popular as golf or its kitchen sink (a la Will Rogers) variant, peewee golf, is older than golf, makes the same demands for coolheadedness and skill, yields the same exercise, is just as captivating of interest and enthusiasm. At the tournament several records were broken, notably the world's long-distance flight record with a yew bow. The Rev. L. L. Dailey, of Monmouth, Ore. shot an arrow 14 yards short of a quarter mile...
Author Bromfield manipulates the interweaving skeins of his narrative with skill, never gets inextricably tangled up. His style is thin and without distinction but he tells a good story. Perhaps because of his poverty of style you never feel more emotionally concerned for any of his people than if you had met them in the flesh at a dinner party so viciously dull as old Hector...
President Williams required all his urbanity and parliamentary skill to keep the convention's business meetings from riot. Many Negro Baptists have become discontented with his long tenure of the presidency. This year they had as a sword over his head a scandal...
...earnings have never been disclosed to a curious public. President and general manager of the company is George Britton Durell who, in the garden of his two-acre home in Cleveland and on his 2,000-acre farm outside of the city, tries out new tools with a skill learned on his father's truck farm. Speaking of the merger, he said: "While no two of the companies manufacture the same product, nearly all the tools made by them are composed of steel heads and wooden handles, and the processes of manufacture are similar...
...when she goes to another woman's home, where her husband has been gambling away his substance, and brings his affec- tion and property home again. Full of theatrical cliches, Lawful Larceny is enlivened by the verbal improvisations and expansive mannerisms of Actor Lowell Sherman and by the skill of Director Lowell Sherman in giving Actor Sherman due opportunities. In spite of its familiarity, it moves fast enough to be fair entertainment. Best shot: Bebe Daniels going to work as secretary to the woman who has broken up her home...