Word: giftedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the heading of the word color comes Curley's gift for public speaking. Originally, he was only a commonplace orator but he sensed the need for inspiring speech-making even before he was mayor. He studied nights under a Professor Staley at a public speaking school in Boston. Staley comments that Curley was so unrefined when he first went to the school that the young man had a very difficult time convincing the professor to keep him. Curley soon became Staley's best pupil, and even now, the teacher still sends written comments to the mayor on each...
...revealed during the trial that Lyons had done nothing inconsistent with the mores of Massachusetts politicians. The defense maintained that the architects gift to Lyons cost the taxpayers nothing since the contract on which Lyons and taken a kickback had gone to the lowest bidder as it should, and the building project was not frivolous...
...gift for the establishment of an endowed professorship in retailing has been given the University, President Conant announced last night...
...position at the Business School has been given in honor of the 84-year-old president of Filene's Department Store of Boston and is called the Lincoln Filene Professorship of Retailing. The gift was initiated by the directors and officers of the Federated Department Stores...
...headmaster, he is endlessly tortured by his snob and shrew and slut of a wife, who makes him the confidant as well as the victim of her infidelities. When a pupil suddenly floods him with happiness by bringing him a present, his wife promptly points out that the gift is doubtless really a bribe. At the end, thanks to the prodding of his wife's rebellious lover, Crocker-Harris shows signs of rebelling too-a final twist of theater in a work that, despite its realistic trappings, is actually all theater, even though it is effectively contrived and played...