Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his London hotel window South Africa's Prime Minister can look across Hyde Park's greensward-too sleek and flat for one who loves to walk the rough sandstone of Table Mountain or the undulant, spacious land of the Transvaal. He breakfasts at leisure, on gift eggs from egg-rationed English friends. He listens to the radio's news, scans the Times, attends to cables and correspondence. By 10 o'clock he is ready for visitors in his big bay-windowed reception room. By n he has changed his slippers, buttoned up his red-tabbed...
Tito offered us hors d'oeuvres with caviar (a gift from the Russian mission), risotto with mushrooms, pumpkin pie, coffee, more Slivovic and Dalmatian red wine...
Each year, from the income of a gift by T. Jefferson Coolidge '50, prizes of $100 each are offered to the two best speakers in the trial debates for the H-Y-P series...
...small contingent of the West Coast boys are answering the call of the Rockies, but others are heading South. Messrs. McClelland and Howsie plan to investigate the wonders of Miami, after the build-up given, the little city by Florida's gift to the Supply Corps. Incidentally, we might welcome the aforementioned Floridian as Transportation instructor for the coming term. Glad to have you aboard...
...them; some were reminiscent of the French primitive, Le Douanier Henri Emilien Rousseau, or of French Modernist Marie Laurencin. Wrote Art Connoisseur Frank Crowninshield in one of the catalogue's two forewords (the other was written by Correspondent John Gunther) : "A curious and evocative order of magic; a gift of divination . . . the feeling of rhythm, or flow...