Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single Italian wine-her brave try: "Champagne." Without congratulating the winner, Nives Zegna, 19, of Milan, the Vatican's eminent Osservatore Romano editorialized: "The attempt to ennoble the beauty contest, to demonstrate that these feminine fairs are different from horse shows by virtue of God's gift of intelligence, was shipwrecked on the beach at Rimini...
...well-polished but thin cliche: the blue dog, an outcast, dies happy in the cold because the snow lets him pass for white. But Anne is rarely that gushy, precious or explicit. Indeed, though she sees with a child's fresh eye, she has a special gift for the macabre. She raises an unlikely chill with the tale of a lady whose poodle comes to tea in a dinner jacket. She turns a trick of perspective to eerie effect by playing out the story of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar with a cast of sewer rats. Her most persistent...
Konrad Adenauer is a man who feels betrayed. He visited the U.S. last June with what he regarded as a prized gift for his old friend John Foster Dulles: a promise that, despite all the public opposition and the criticism from the Socialists, the Bundestag would soon pass a conscription law. Since West German rearmament has long been a prime goal of U.S. foreign policy. Adenauer made his pledge with happy anticipation, but got in return, say his aides, only a polite smile. Driving away from Dulles' office, Adenauer uneasily told a subordinate: "I have a feeling something...
...navel. R. H. Macy, Manhattan's mass department store, offers French beaded purses for $99.50; Sears, Roebuck, the farmer's friend, catalogues a $3,210 diamond ring for the farmer's wife, a $718 electric golf cart for the farmer. Last week, at the Summer Gift Show in Chicago's Merchandise Mart, prices were up as much as 100% over five years ago, but the show had the most successful run in its history, with sales 50% ahead of last year. One puzzled firm reported selling 200 Egyptian camel saddles at $100 apiece last year, could...
...addendum to your May 14 cover story on Marilyn Monroe, you may be delighted to have brought to your attention that the 18th century had its own Monroe, Dorothy, a beauty of the day celebrated for similar endowments. In thanking his friend Lord Clare for the gift of a haunch of venison, Oliver Goldsmith licked his chops and said...