Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Thurber and Elliot Nugent, in addition to a gift for epigrammatic turns of phrase and scintillating repartee, have that ability which Sinclair Lewis has shown in his better novels--the ability to take people, exploit their every characteristic facet until they are a group of caricatures, but create caricatures which are exaggerated only enough to make them more vivid and real and not so much as to make them meretricious and ridiculous...
...obviously to U.S. advantage to have Britain pay for as many of her necessities as possible by exports, rather than need everything as a gift from...
Your cash serves a four-fold purpose. First, it gives you virtual immunity from the trials and tribulations of avoiding Boston Community Fund agents when they start their annual drive in November. Your Student Council gift is your Community Fund Pledge...
...residency cluttered with coffee sacks, Sir John decided that the practical thing to do was to send the coffee to England for war relief. This decision wrinkled the brows of the Foreign Office. In the mysterious East, Kings' gifts are not for commoners. Should the Imam ever hear that his royal gift had been given to Tom, Dick & Harry, he might well feel insulted...
Breezily dictaphoned in her swanky, cluttered Waldorf-Astoria apartment, her first columns anecdotalized her famed party guests, repeated such well-known Elsiana as the story of how she rejected a gift of $5,000 worth of jewels from Cartier's, instead hired Fritz Kreisler for that sum to play at a Paris party. (Afterwards, she alleges, Bernard Shaw "rushed up and pointed a finger at my nose. 'Tell me just one thing,' he said, 'is it true? If it is, you are the eighth wonder of the world...