Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seem, at first glance, not altogether proficient. There is precious little virtuosity in Mexico, there is even too little sacrificial taking of pains. But more than twoscore living Mexican artists have got something that practice, competence and technical proficiency can never in themselves produce. They have the supreme gift of translating experienced emotion into works of art which give off emotion. And that, I take it, is what those of us are after who go to look at pictures...
...sail in two weeks are two French freighters tied up in New York Harbor, with 13,500 tons of white flour (a gift of the U. S. Red Cross). U. S. conditions: 1) the food can go only to unoccupied ports; 2) it must be directly distributed by the Red Cross; 3) "not a single pound" of similar or equivalent food must pass into Occupied France; 4) the ships must return immediately...
...nice of you to write me with regard to my contribution to the Harvard Fund. My contribution to the Fund has never been large and the fact that I shall make no gift this year is of little importance...
...wined and dined the British Foreign Secretary, showed him the classic sights, finally led him up the battered Acropolis whence he surveyed the glinting blue Aegean. Before his big Short Sunderland flying boat took off for British Egyptian headquarters, he received from Athens' Military Governor Kostas Kotzias a gift of two handsome pistols from the 1821-29 Greek War of Independence, a lustrous Byzantine icon, an album of photographs of Greece, and rich Dodecanese Island embroideries for Mrs. Eden. It had been such a reception as in peace times might have been accorded a distinguished English poet, and went...
Slim, soft-spoken Floyd Bostwick Odlum, who built Atlas Corp. from a $40,000 experiment in 1923 to a $121,336,779 investment trust ten years later, has one very special gift: an uncanny ability to sense ''special situations." Last week Floyd Odlum released Atlas' 1940 report, and with it a bagful of cats. His newest "special situation" was revealed to be Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc., 7% cumulative Class A stock. First reaction of many a Wall Streeter: "What does Odlum see in that?" Second reaction: look...