Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enshrine the legend, the Queen gave the gown (one of her favorites) to the Dominion as a gift. In December 1940 it was elegantly displayed on a dummy in Ottawa's Public Archives. Ever since, tourists have gawked at its opulence...
...youth is capable. At their best, they had the Roman stoicism and the Athenian sentience which are sometimes the glory of the very fine-souled when they are very young. In most of his verse their blend is irreducible, but it is fertilized by a minor yet miraculous poetic gift...
Housman could indulge in depths of unblushing self-pity; but he could also write the magnificent Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle. His gift for epigram and poetic conceit was too glib, but he could also write...
...That you should have been able to preserve the art not only of creating armies almost at the stroke of a wand-but of leading and guiding these armies upon a scale incomparably greater than anything that was prepared for or even dreamed of, constitutes a gift made by the officer corps of the United States to their nation in time of trouble, which I earnestly hope will never be forgotten here...
...Chungking, in a Western-style villa of faced stone called "Happiness Gardens," above the confluence of the Kialing and the Yangtze. Into the living room, deeply carpeted and warmed against the damp Szechwan winter by a charcoal-burning fireplace, came leaders of China to pay their respects, to present gift scrolls, and to argue their cases before Ma Hsieh-erh, as "Marshall" is transliterated into Chinese...