Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friendly Place. In the cave, when Commissioner Huxtable saw it last month, were some old rifles, a bullet mold, a saddle, an ornate chair which had been a gift to Lobengula from Queen Victoria. A skull and a few cracked bones were all that jackals and hyenas had left of Lobengula. Of treasure there was no sign. Then & there, Huxtable proclaimed the cave a national monument...
...never the steady controlled intensity that he admires in the ancients, but glints with unexpected intellectual play over the current-like foam above the rapids of a river. After the long years when the very grace of his writing gave the impression that it lacked substance, his especial gift, intuitive, sympathetic, has come into its own. The ceremoniousness and hospitality of the Latin American mind are his, as is its sudden poetic insights, its brilliant intellectual discoveries that are tossed aside, like a master artist's sketch, as soon as they are made...
...Park mansion seem precariously crowded. The mother of John Roosevelt Boettiger, 4, found his overcoat pocket crammed with keys he had filched from White House doors. Grandpa Roosevelt-his hair considerably whiter than in 1932 and, as he remarked to a photographer, thinning just short of baldness-presided at gift-unwrapping in the library, carved, the turkey at-dinner and read aloud, as always, Dickens' Christmas Carol. Of the reading, Grandma Roosevelt reported in her column that "he cuts the whole story, of course, but he is so expert at reading it now, he can hold even the small...
...stores things had come to such a pass last week that even the most inspired shopper, armed with a long list of just-what-Harry-really-wants, was carrying home whatever-there-was-left-on-the-shelves-and no gift wrappings either. As one harried storekeeper put it: "Remember, it is the specific things you want that you can't get. You can get something...
...above last year's, and the average retail sale in all stores was $10 v. $2 in 1942. In shipbuilding San Francisco, where application blanks for clerks went into monthly bills, the report from all retailers was: "price means nothing." San Francisco also reported an unusual number of gift certificates bought by shoppers who gave up trying to find the perfect present. For once, it was easier to shop in bargain basements than in the snootier departments upstairs...