Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such consistent success was earned by the diligent exercise of a slender but well-muscled comic talent-a gift, said one critic, for being "obviously obvious about the very obvious." His father, a Dutch banker in London, insisted that John read for the law before starting a writing career. John dutifully did, began writing Young Woodley while teaching English law and legal history at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth...
...American Past is history gift-wrapped for readers who ordinarily find the subject unattractive. A picture story of U.S. politics and personalities from 1775 to 1945, the book is presumably (at $10) a carriage-trade item, but Publishers Simon and Schuster expect it to sell like crêpes suzettes...
Like later 'malefactors of great wealth," Stoughton turned in his declining years to repairing the reputation he had earlier destroyed. The result was the donation in 1799 of 1,000 pounds to the College for the first edifice in Harvard history to be built through the gift of an alumnus. This sum did not completely cover construction cost, and it was necessary for the College to petition the Massachusetts General Court for the right to use brick from an Indian college that had fallen into decay. This right was granted, but only after the College agreed that Indians coming...
...gift from a retired New York banker will result in the establishment of a new teaching chair in the Music Department, to be known as the Walter W. Naumberg Professorship of Music...
Expansion in the permanent staff of the Music Department, a need which A. Tillman Merritt, associate professor of Music and chairman of the department, described as becoming "increasingly great with the growing number of students who have been coming here for the study of music" will result from the gift...