Word: bestowal
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...will be a lucrative one for you," promised lecturer Gordon MacKinnon with a big smile. MacKinnon had good reason for smiling; New England Mutual Hall was filled for his Demonstration Meeting of the Dale Carnagic Course in Human Relations. Advance newspaper ads had stressed the course's ability to bestow courage, self-confidence, and U. S. currency on those who took it, and three hundred people had felt insecure, inferior, and poor enough to trek into Boston for last Thursday's evening meeting...
Shortly before 5 p.m. this afternoon over 500 Yale juniors will file quietly into the courtyard of Branford College. This is Tap Day, the day when Yale's senior societies bestow on Eli juniors the highest honor or the deepest heartache that can come to a young man in New Haven...
...Scout badge-award ceremony with "the solemnity of a coronation" . . . The pomp and circumstance connected with such an award is not designed to impress cynical and worldly-wise adults, but, rather, is centered on the boy himself. The award of Eagle rank is the highest honor that scouting can bestow . . . Parents may prod, and leaders may coax, but the boy himself must do the work . . . After a formidable array of obstacles has been surmounted, no award ceremony is too great to convince the boy that for one night at least, he is on top of the world. (PvT.) ALAN...
Meet Danny Wilson (Universal-International) pictures the rise of a brash but likable young crooner to the special fame that only bobbysoxers can bestow. Apart from romantic and melodramatic trimmings that it borrows elsewhere, the story cribs so freely from the career and personality of Frank Sinatra that fans may expect Ava Gardner to pop up in the last reel. What sharpens the illusion is the playing of Crooner Danny Wilson by Crooner Sinatra himself...
...worried. She lost weight. But now she has found that scandal can't hurt her." Her current picture, Show Boat, is breaking box-office records across the country. In Lone Star, Metro cast her opposite Clark Gable, still one of the greatest favors in its power to bestow, and it has two more important pictures lined up for her. Other studios are clamoring to borrow her services...