Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twin Cities Ruml Customs & Misc. 700 500 Estate & Gift Taxes 500 500 Excise Taxes 4,000 3,000 Corporation Taxes 5,000 1,000 Sales Tax 2,800 - Individual Income Tax 5,000 13,000 Total...
...China, the bells were once the property of the Dana Monastery, in Moscow. Crane offered a set of Russian bells to President Lowell after seeing them, on a trip through Europe, and President Lowell anxious to bless the crimson halls with a touch of the continent accepted the gift...
...saradjeff came with the bells as a sort of auxiliary gift. Born of a family of talented Zvon-players, he was reared in an atmosphere of Zvon. By the time he arrived in America, he had already composed 132 symphonies for the Russian carillon, and was rumored to know by its tone each of the 4000 bells in Moscow. Saradjeff was commissioned of install the Lowell House set and to teach the art of playing them to various candidates...
...Andrews Sisters, bawling, hoydenish Queens of the Juke Box, gave their parents, a Minneapolis Greek restaurateur named Andreos, and their Norwegian mother a whopping 32nd-wedding-anniversary present: one-fourth of the singers' earnings for life. At their present drawing power, the gift amounts to over $100,000 a year. Their first hit in 1937 (Bel Mir Bist Du Schon) sold over 125,000 records; they now get $100,000 annual royalty from Decca for their discs, $10,000 a week average for personal appearances...
Moment of Inspiration. That trip would have been as short-lived as the Maharajah's memory had it not been for the use Forster made of it. He studied India and the Indians, rulers and ruled. Out of these, and by the gift of some moment of inspiration that lifted his sar donic talent to genius, Forster wrote A Passage to India. Its history has been a 3 remarkable as the book itself, or its author...