Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in those prewar days when TIME was banned in Germany, banned in Italy, and banned in Japan for telling the truth too outspokenly, the fat No. 2 Nazi made a point of reading TIME regularly-and Adolf Hitler got a copy each week as the Trojan Horse gift of a truth-loving Norwegian who gave the Führer a subscription every Christmas as an antidote to his own oratory...
...TIME subscribers who have friends in Sweden can send them gift subscriptions to the Scandinavian Edition now at a special Charter Subscriber's rate of only...
...love and unflagging loyalty-or her equally unflagging enmity if they said no. She got $50,000 from Warners for her appearance in Hollywood Hotel. For getting stars to pose gratis for Woodbury's Soap testimonials (beginning in 1939) Louella gratefully admits to having received a "Christmas gift," promises to sue anyone who says she gets a salary. For the screen rights to her autobiography, Darryl Zanuck is paying Louella $75,000. (Cracked Hedda: "Darryl, I want $150,000 if I appear in it, and $75,000 if I stay...
Three weeks before, the Germans had ordered the 4,000 villagers out of town. Then the Germans proceeded to blow the place to bits. The destruction was savage, efficient. Only the piazza fountain, a gift from villagers who had emigrated to the U.S. seemed to have escaped...
...started and refereed the first Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race (the winner averaged 52 m.p.h.), in World War I commanded the U.S.S. Tarantula with the hand of a longtime yachtsman. Famed as the footloose owner of the $3,000,000 diesel yacht Alva (his 1941 gift to the Navy), he studied hard for his master's papers, and could legally have skippered a Queen Mary in any ocean...