Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American elections differ from our own; [Americans] have more of the gift for the snappy phrase. . . . Thus we have John L. Lewis describing Sidney Hillman . . . as 'a Russian pants-maker who is trying to take over the rule of the nation.' Who can think of a single good quip by Sir Robert Borden or Mr. Bennett or Mr. King? . . . Who can equal Mr. Ickes' phrase about the youthful Mr. Dewey 'throwing his diapers into the ring,' or his description of Wendell Willkie as 'the barefoot boy from Wall Street...
...contains elements which are far superior to competence or success. Indeed, the hope for great films in Hollywood seems just now to be shared about evenly by Val Lewton and by Preston Sturges, with the odds, perhaps, on Lewton. Lewton wholly lacks the Sturges brilliance, adroitness and comic gift; he probably hasn't it in him to make a wow. But his feeling for cinema is quite as deep and spontaneous as that of Sturges, and his feeling for human beings, and how to bring them to life on the screen, is deeper...
...world's biggest scientific group is the American Chemical Society, a polyglot organization of over 36,000. Its scientific cross section embraces professors, industrial chemists, $1,200-a-year research assistants-chemists high & low. Last week, in Manhattan for their annual convention, they were dazed by an unexpected gift. It amounted to $1,000,000 a year...
...gift for convulsing his father's sales ladies by the way he wore the ladies' hats made it clear that he was not cut out for the millinery business. His father began to catch on when young Iz (the family nickname) forged his name on an excuse from school to see the doctor. Iz went to the local vaudeville house instead. Father Leopold stormed. Iz threatened to run away- under a pseudonym, to spare the family name. Father Leopold didn't like that, either. Said he: "If you make a hit, nobody will know...
...nostalgic milestone of the Great Depression was passed in Chicago last week. In 1932, the Reconstruction Finance Corp. lent $90,000,000 to Chicago's Central Republic Bank & Trust Co., stirring up a tempest of criticism. The loan was sourly dubbed "a Government gift." The reason: RFC Chairman Charles G. Dawes had resigned his RFC chairmanship to resume the chairmanship of Central Republic only three weeks before the loan was made. The cash helped ease pressure on all Chicago banks; but Central Republic closed its doors. Deposit accounts were transferred to the City National Bank & Trust Co., now chairmaned...