Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bizarre present that found favor in 1946 was a sequence of fourteen sonnets lettered in Old English, and illuminated, on a sheet of parchment. What gave a fillip to the toil that went into the manufacture of the gift was the fact that each sonnet described an outing or incident the Middlebury giver had shared with the Harvard recipient...
...shooting stick might be restful for long waits outside the H. A. A. ticket office. The hand-carved duck could be sailed in a bathtub. The sherry, grapes, cheese, and bread may be, as the circular puts it, "just the gift for midnight cocoa parties in the dorm." But of all these items, and such others as a cerise-and-yellow Tattersall checked waistcoat, a set of Chinese checkers, dominees and dice encased in tooled leather, and a solid-gold hunting knife for skinning the game in field or forest, fifty Harvard undergraduates chosen at random offer a negative estimate...
Although perhaps lacking the personal touch, a gift that will warm the cockles of any male heart is a product indigenous to Kentucky, particularly pleasant when wrapped in Christmas ribbon and bottled in bond. In short, whoever you may be, offer not badfnerle.Shown above is probably the most useless Christmas gift ever given to anyone: a wax dummy in a top hat. Everyone knows that wax dummies look better in fedoras...
After years of this work he was making enough money to give away the souls he manufactured as Christmas gifts. It was a very satisfying way of life and he was quite happy until one day a Christian came to him for a Christmas gift...
...College cannot be accused of clutoring things up at men shops, where one proprietor estimated that nine-tenths of his gift customers were women. Yet another reported a noticable College demand for presents for "pa," though "limited budgets are preventing $50 selections...