Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican Central Campaign Committee from the squalid slums of the Tenth Ward (known as the Old Reliable because it never fails to produce a Republican majority). He went to work at 14, climbed up through the machine's hierarchy by ambition, hustle, a fast smile and a gift for "getting out the vote." Along the way he quietly decided that the machine needed a great deal of remodeling. The scandals gave him his chance...
London gallerygoers last week had only to look at 27 of Wilson's latest drawings to see that he was not a complicated intellectual howitzer but something considerably easier to take: a self-taught artist who had a fresh way of seeing things and a gift for getting them down on paper. Scottie's world was a cheerful place where everything fell into intricate designs of delicately colored ink. Strange and luxuriant plants spread across his drawings with the spontaneous elaboration of a Persian carpet; forms, half-vegetable, half-animal, grew out of each other like coral...
...With a dancer's discipline and grace, she responds instantly to the photographer's every direction, almost before it is spoken. Her body (bust and hips 34 in.) is so supple that she can pull in her normally 23-inch waist to 18 inches. She has the gift of mimicry every good model needs, and a keen fashion sense. Once, she appeared 103 times in a single issue of a magazine, scarcely looked like the same girl in two pictures. Says she: "The photographer says, 'Look sexy,' and I look sexy. He says, 'Look like...
...written in that self-deceiving and deceptive style whose weakness will be mistaken by some for strength. It is clumsy and naive, but devotees of the unspoiled may call it simple and homespun and applaud when Feikema challenges (unsuccessfully) the tyranny of grammar. He has the sort of poetic gift that gets in the way of a good prose, and his recipe for flavoring his concoction is "salt-and-peppering the whole with many a dark adjective and adverb"-not to mention verbs. When Thurs wanted to get from one place to another, he "moosed," "giraffed" or "cameled" around...
...wall of Chicago Stock Exchange President James Day's office hangs a two-inch perch mounted on a tarpon-sized plank, the gift of friends lampooning a luckless fishing trip. But last week ardent Fisherman Day landed a tarpon of sorts. After three years of angling, he hooked it with representatives of the Cleveland, St. Louis and Minneapolis-St. Paul Stock Exchanges. They agreed to merge their exchanges into one big Midwest Stock Exchange, which will be exceeded in size only by the New York Stock Exchange and the Curb Exchange...