Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York World-Telegram, which editorialized: "Money is still needed to finance the Willkie campaign. . . . Greatly increased numbers of contributors mean a significant and healthy broadening of the base. ... All over the country smaller contributors are acting in the lively spirit of the man who pinned to his gift: My candidate's name's Wendell Willkie, His tones are not honey or sillkie; He's the first man in years To call forth my cheers, So-good luck with this $5.00 billkie...
...Negotiations for the purchase of Trotsky's archives had been going on since June 1939, with the full knowledge and agreement of the leaders of the different Trotskyist groups. There is nothing in those archives which would justify the claim of the "Dallas paper" that "Exile's colleagues resented gift to Widener." You might at least credit Trotsky as not being a dope. Richard Pitts, President, Harvard Socialist League, 4th International...
...privately owned treasure houses are over. They are gone with the wind as inevitably as the great Southern plantations of before the Civil War. . . . Today there is a general and salutary leveling of extravagance to safeguard this great heritage of ours, America. . . . We feel that such a gift to the nation is one small step in the direction of disarming those individuals and ideologies that are foreign to the American...
...Orchestra Hall one night last week. It was a Schellenbaum (bell tree), an instrument of Moorish origin, looking like a brass Christmas tree hung with bells and horse tails. It is the only Schellenbaum owned by a U. S. orchestra. The Chicago Symphony, which got it as a gift from the late Composer Camille Saint-Saëns, trots it out rarely. But last week, when the Symphony began its soth season, its 36th under the still competent baton of stooped, white-haired old "Papa" Frederick Stock, was one of those times...
Ratner stated that an article written by Justice Homes in 1888 for "Youth's Companion' would be published for the first time in this year's law book. Mark Howe of the Buffalo University Law School discovered it and presented it as a gift to Dean Landis. The article gives Holmes's estimation of the characteristics necessary for success...