Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...employer gave her the bottle as a gift, and all went well until soon after Christmas the girl decided to leave. However, when she gathered her belongings together she discovered that one umbrella, one pair of slippers, and one house-coat were gone. The family said that they would return the articles only when the whiskey was paid...
...almost any hands, such material would yield a rank fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tells her tale with simplicity, insight, and a rare gift of phrase. She makes its tortures seem at least as valid as the dull suburban tragedies from Farrell's or Dreiser's Midwest, commonly called lifelike. Reflections in a Golden Eye is the Southern school at its most Gothic, but also at its best. It is as though William Faulkner saw to the bottom of matters which merely excite him, shed his stylistic faults, and wrote it all out with Tolstoyan...
...total of 370 prints were added by gift or purchase to the Museum's Print Collection. The largest gift to this department was a collection of 224 chiaroscuro prints bequeathed by Horace M. Swope '05 of St. Louis...
Conant's opposition to Germany was first expressed in 1934 when he refused the offer of a scholarship from Ernest F. S. Hanfstaengl '09, then-time high Nazi official and close buddy of Hitler. In a public letter to him, President Conant said, "We are unwilling to accept a gift from one who has been so closely associated with the leadership of a political party which has inflicted damage on the universities of Germany...
Young Eli Whitney developed his mechanical skill in the rustic smithies which forged muskets for General Washington's troops. But when peace came, folk expected their new Confederation to become a great nation through the inventions of lawyers, not of tinkerers. So, despite his gift for whittling and smithing, Eli went to Yale College where he studied mathematics, then to Georgia to teach school and study law. He lived on the plantation of General Nathanael Greene's charming widow. She urged her whittling friend to devise a machine for cleaning cotton. Author Burlingame thinks that any Yankee tinkerer...