Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well earned in two criminal convictions and the bet ter part of a lifetime spent in the illicit drug trade. Kalyopi's Teheran plant was capable of turning out each week up to 110 Ibs. of deadly dope worth nearly $500,000 on the wholesale market. Disguised as gift packages, some 90% of Kalyopi's product was shipped...
...thinning grey hair is worn at ordinary, not Claghorn, length, and he shuns the string tie and the diamond stickpin. Taciturn and humorless, he has neither the gift nor the inclination for the vivid rhetorical attacks on opponents that were the stock in trade of such old masters as South Carolina's Ben Tillman, who won the voters' hearts by announcing his determination to go to Washington and plunge a pitchfork into the rump of President Grover Cleveland. Where Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo embarrassed respectable Southerners with personal peccadilloes, ranging from a particularly messy divorce to brazen bribe...
Just as reassuring to Helen was the major's eventual proposal of marriage and his subsequent visit to London Jeweler Theodore Williams. For, like everything Major Woodfall did. the purchase of a suitable wedding gift for his bride was consummated in style. It began with a ?70 ($196) dinner at the Ritz for Jeweler Williams, ended with the shrewd selection of some ?6,800 worth of gems at Williams' place of business. Paying for the lot by check. Major Woodfall pocketed a particularly appealing brooch (worth ?585) with the words that Miss Hackman wished to wear it over...
...spent a winter on Corfu with the Somerset Maugham Award money received for his last novel, The Dividing Stream, has scraped the marrow of his Greek characters. He recognizes their fortitude under real pain, their histrionics over emotional trifles and their bristling pride. Above all, he captures their gift for draining each passing moment of life as if it were a glass of their own villainous retsina wine. Author King overexposes and underdevelops his hapless English hero, but his color shots of Corfu are snapped with the eye of a Matisse, and Patrick's departure from the Ionian isle...
...customs that Mrs. Tighe recounted in a brogue and in words that seemed utterly foreign to her. $25 an Existence. In two months Bernstein's book shot through eight printings and 170,500 copies into No. 1 spot on U.S. nonfiction bestseller lists overlapping Anne Lindbergh's Gift From the Sea. It has also sold some 30,000 longplaying records ($5.95 each) enabling purchasers to hear Bridey herself as Bernstein recorded her on tape in the first of his six sessions with Housewife Tighe. The book has been bought by the movies (for a reported $50,000), syndicated...