Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press has changed with the economic times. It was free in the days of small business, says Nebraska-born Lasch, when "the tramp printer and ambitious editor marched in the van of westward migration. . . . Every party, every faction had its own newspaper. A shoestring and the gift of gab were almost all a man needed to launch one." When business grew big, "personal journalism gave way to the corporation and the chain." The press became "an integral part of the economic structure. . . . Business had run politics and politics had run the press. Now the newspaper, as part of business, helped...
...under a mountain, was reopened. Four huge electric pumps were installed. With his own hand II Duce started the pumps (1928). A little less than three years later the water-logged galleys were raised. In 1940 Mussolini presented the venerable hulls, mounted on concrete, as a pious gift to Rome on her 2,695th birthday (April 21). On the last day of May at lovely Lake Nemi the defeated Nazis paused in their flight from the U.S. Fifth Army long enough to give themselves a little pleasure. With fire they destroyed forever the galleys of Caligula...
...with me and found it invaluable in establishing what ethnologists like to call rapport. The Lacandons were obviously curious about the land from which we came, and we showed them the pictures and tried to explain them. In return they gave us the information we needed. ... As a parting gift we left several items which they had esteemed highly; namely, a pair of blue jeans, two bars of soap, and the battered copy of TIME...
...throat at cribbage beside the fire, sets up a hungry cry: "Sally, bring the anchovies!" and Sally reaches for a can opener. Mrs. Spaatz keeps a steady flow of ingenious crackers, biscuits, anchovies, kippers, sardines, smoked cheese and the like crossing the Atlantic for X-House; as a gift on his 53rd birthday (June 28) Tooey will get a Smithfield...
Dean Buck reminisced over 14 years of the House's history and the ceremonies were concluded when Bill Dunn '46, president of the House Committee, presented Master and Mrs. Baring with a gift...