Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alone intellectually, perhaps, he was nevertheless becoming popular in Brazil: with the Free French, for whom one of his sons fought; with many Brazilian Catholics, who could disagree in part but admire him wholly; with Brazil's intelligent Foreign Minister Aranha, who made him a gift of a fine saddle horse; with his neighbors, who helped him remodel his farm on the rolling uplands of Minas Geraes province, and were rewarded by having their names all carved on the cornerstone...
...stream of trainers and bombers, roaring close overhead from nearby military fields, could drown out the somber, determined ring of freedom-loving, sea-loving Franklin Roosevelt's hearty voice. There were tears in the Crown Princess' eyes, and a quaver in her voice, as she accepted the gift...
...theater column for the Chicago Journal of Commerce. Her pay was low but her spirit high: steadily and surely Miss Cassidy became known to an ever wider public as the best music critic in Chicago. Her two 18-carat assets: 1) a shrewd sense of musical values, 2) a gift of writing pointed criticism engagingly. Examples: (after Galli-Curci's ill-fated attempt at a comeback) "Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading for reincarnation"; (describing William Walton's Scapino Overture) "A blithe, scapegrace...
...faultless technique, but most of all by an extraordinary gift for color harmonies of plum reds, jade greens and opulent blues, he endows each small painting with a kind of finality of mood. Pushman admirers are quieted, looking into the silence he frames for them. He has no interest in the prize shows, none in modern painting or painters. He is one of two painters* who in 117 years have refused election to the National Academy...
...President looked at his gift with distaste. Said he: "I am not going to receive it. You can take it back and put it in the historical archives of the Marine Corps at Quantico. But I don't want to touch...