Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Composer Erne Canning Carlton earned an estimated $20,000 from Rock-a-Bye Baby. During her last seven years she was saved from destitution by a $50-a-month gift from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (of which she was never a member). ASCAP also paid her hospital and funeral expenses; its president, Gene Buck, sent the largest floral piece to her funeral. Second largest was from the Hoboes of America. Its inscription: "To Our Beloved Friend...
...Attending a Birthday Horse Show at the Army's Fort Myer, Va., left his usual evening topper at home. Instead he wore a soft, black English Homburg (gift of his military aide. "Pa"'Watson, who was struck with Anthony Eden's Homburg when the Britisher visited Washington last year...
Scores of German travel agencies in the U. S., advertising special combinations of gift Pakete in German-language newspapers, handled this traffic. Prices were high. A Pakete containing 2 Ibs. of butter, 2 Ibs. of cheese, 2 Ibs. of condensed milk, 1 Ib. of lard, ½Ib. of coffee, ½Ib. of cocoa cost $5.95. The cost of sending 8 Ibs. of butter: $7.50. (Pounds were German pounds, slightly larger than U. S.) Cost did not discourage senders. Fortra Corp. of Manhattan declared it had placed 30,000 food packages in Germany in less than three months, was doing...
...useful military data for possible future use. The Mannerheim party traveled 8,750 miles on horseback, lost two Cossacks from the hardships of the journey, had many adventures. Colonel Mannerheim kept the Dalai Lama waiting to receive him while he carefully shaved and dressed, made his peace with the gift of a revolver, which he showed the Lama how to use. At Lhabrang Monastery he was hissed and stoned by pilgrims. The expedition took two years, gave Colonel Mannerheim a reputation as a scientist as well as a soldier, made him a commander of Uhlans. In 1913 he rose...
...Adams wrote that "hardly any college seems free of the taint" of bolshevism; and deploring this "subversive" tendency, she provided that her gift not be used by universities allowing this movement. One-half the estate was to be divided by M. I. T. and by the Harvard Medical School for deserving students...