Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Psychiatrics notwithstanding, most Viennese theatergoers took Harvey to their hearts as simply as a child takes his Easter bunny. Restaurant-keepers, says Vienna's Elwood Dowd (Actor Oscar Karlweis), are constantly thrusting gift packages at him. Most of them contain cabbage and carrots for the kindly rabbit who nightly helps his friend to find good in his fellow man. Even the Polish Minister seemed to have fallen sway to the rabbit's charm. At a dinner at the legation recently, he called Karlweis aside for a vodka. He poured out two glasses. "One for you," he told Vienna...
...gift from Mrs. William W. Flint, house mother of Eliot Hall, brought the freshmen to within $400 of their goal...
Radio Radcliffe will team with Saville House to sell raffle tickets for gift certificates. The Orchestra and Music Clubs are also lined up to sell gift certificates for music and records...
...Morris Gray Poetry Fund income is applied to the giving of occasional talks or lectures on modern poetry, and is derived from a gift of $10,000 given to the University in 1939 by Morris Gray...
...Augusta Academy, when early settlers of the region decided to plant Scottish-Presbyterian learning in the Valley of Virginia. In 1798, the year before he died, George Washington handed the school its first big boost: $50,000 worth of canal stock, that had originally been the gift to Washington of the Virginia Legislature. The school gratefully changed its name to Washington Academy, later to Washington College...