Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...precise and punctual members of La Paz's British colony, this state of affairs has been hard to bear. Last week the Britons were busy doing something about it. To mark the city's 400th anniversary next month, they had hit upon a handsome gift: a clock, not nearly so big as Big Ben, but big enough to bang out the hours in deep and dependable tones. Topping a 33-ft. granite tower, the $10,000 clock will stand smack in the middle of 2-mi.-high La Paz.* Cracked Buenavista: "What is the use of having...
About ten years ago someone on the RKO lot got a kittenish leopard as a gift. Leopards must have been big box office at the time because no one could wait until they had made a funny-type picture with this jovial cat and Katherine Hepburn. The result has recently been exhumed under the eyebrow-raising title of "Bringing Up Baby"--"Baby" being this sweet tempered kitty. It seemed a lot funnier at the age of twelve...
...anonymous Frenchman had offered Oxford ?1,500,000 ($6,000,000)-biggest gift ever received from a foreigner, and second largest in modern times.* There were a few strings attached. Most of the money was to be used to start a new college. Its name: St. Anthony's. Its general purpose: training young men "of strong will and character as leaders of the future." One-third of the college's undergraduates must be French. A final condition explained the council's unacademic haste: the offer was a take-it-or-leave-it; the donor was about...
...took the dons less than one hour to accept the offer, but it would be months before Oxford's senior common rooms tired of the great guessing game the gift had started. From Paris last week came one guess about Monsieur X's identity: Leon Fabre, 62, multi-millionaire head of the Fabre shipping lines, and a postwar resident...
...puttin' on a wee drap o' music an' drama, ye ken," explained a kilted Scot, "but yer no' gettin' awa' wi' it all as a gift...