Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ingrid Bergman, who has credited her ruddy good health to a liking for "Baltic herrings and sour milk," got the kind of Christmas present that was obviously just what she wanted: a whole barrel of Baltic herrings, a gift from the Swedish fishery union...
...Take Him Out!" Lynn Patrick was no stranger to the Rangers. For nine seasons before the war, he had been known as a bold, fleet left wing with a deadly left-hand shot. His preeminence was no gift. In Lynn's first game, in 1934, he got the puck, glided confidently toward the goal, was neatly dumped on the ice by a couple of veterans. Sneered one: "Don't hurt him, he's the boss's son." The crowd chanted: "Take him out! Take him out!" They thought he might be trying...
...would like very much to associate this gift with the spirit of Christmas." With these words Industrialist Myron C. Taylor last week presented Cornell University with a Christmas present that was notable indeed-$1,500,000. Its purpose: to establish a student interfaith building in memory of his wife. The new structure will contain a chapel dedicated to Cornell men who died in World War II, an "All Nations" room, an auditorium, and offices for twelve cooperating church groups. Episcopalian Taylor (Cornell law school 1894; presidential envoy to the Vatican since 1939) has already given the university its law school...
...Stable. After the choir filed in, 28 strong, their director, the Rev. Clifford A. Underwood, said a prayer: "We thank thee, O God, for so many blessings. We thank thee for the fruits of our gardens. But we thank thee most for the gift of Bethlehem, the gift of thine only begotten Son." In thg brief silence which followed, the sound of a distant airplane came faintly to the church. Then the men, women and girls of the choir opened their books and began to sing...
...Feathered Tom. The parade of White House callers included all sorts of men on all sorts of missions: labor leaders, turkey growers, Senators, foreign diplomats, politicians, old friends, ax-grinding congressmen, lobbying mayors and gift-bearing citizens. A delegation from Truman, Minnesota (which had voted against him, 267 to 241) dropped in to invite the President to attend the town's 50th anniversary...