Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drum joined the band in 1928 as a gift of the Associated Harvard Clubs. In 20 years of trundling onto football fields all over the East it has outfought New Haven evildoers and has been promised six guards for the excursion into Connecticut next fall...
Last week's gift, in the form of oil properties estimated to have a total yield of 40 to 80 million barrels, will establish the Cullen Foundation. The money will go for various educational, health, and charitable purposes, but chiefly to the University of Houston and the new Texas Medical Center. Said Cullen: "My wife and I are that selfish we wish to see our money spent during our lifetime, so that we may derive great pleasure from...
Forty years ago Erich's family & friends thought he might be a new Mozart. He had one of Mozart's names, the same precocity, and a gift for melody. His ballet (The Snowman), composed when he was eleven, was produced in Vienna two years later. Before he was 20 he had written two operas. The Dead City, written at 23, won him fame throughout Europe, and a new star, Maria Jeritza, introduced it at Manhattan's Metropolitan...
...advertisement in the English-language Brazil Herald brought results. The owner wanted no key money; he did not want to sell any furniture. For a big living room, dining room, bedroom and tiny guest room we thought it a gift...
...proper place, I made 'em myself. If you want a soft mellow tone, you have to take it easy and pet it a little. But you take an awful chance, you may not get anything." He still uses his own unorthodox fingering. "I seem to have a gift," he says. "If I hear a bar or a couple of notes of a melody I always seem to know what is next. I seem to go so fast that I don't bother with the music...