Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Purp has enlisted only volunteers. But, come July 1, whatever war and essential civilian manufacturers have not accepted Purp as a WPB gift will get it as a WPB order...
Gingerbread very early ceased to be a monopoly of the nobles. Even the poorest citizen of ancient Rome somehow found it within his means to proffer a spicy gift to the gods. In ancient Greece, where bread-baking was a fine art, the city of Rhodes was as famous for its gingerbread as it was for its harbor-bestriding Colossus. Part of the loot that the roving Crusaders carried home was culinary lore of the East, including the recipe for gingerbread. As spices came to be a more common property, the great mass of the people took gingerbread...
...operetta, were dressed up last year by their composer in symphonic finery at the persuasion of Conductor Rodzinski. The resulting potpourri is lush, places Jerome Kern no whit nearer Beethoven as a symphonist, but Rodzinski's silky performance makes even more apparent Kern's Schubertian gift for melody...
...outwardly charming and polished as an international banker, is actually a member of the fan-magazine audience that eats up his muscle-bound extravaganzas. He does all the acting for his cast on the set, and it is his performance, not theirs, that registers on the screen. Once his gift for spectacular effect was in tune with the times; today it is strictly from Dixie. But it is still boxoffice...
...Empire. The question of whether the natives of Malaya should have been given their freedom had apparently not been brought up. But it was indeed recalled that the Indians had requested freedom some time ago. And it was excessively annoying" to discover that such a simple-and presumably inexpensive gift-had not long since been arranged...