Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peruvian Ambassador Alfredo Benavides had an idea, and to sell it he invited the heads of the diplomatic missions in Ottawa to come around for a drink. The idea: a gift to mark the retirement of U.S. Ambassador Ray Atherton (TIME, Aug. 23), dean of Ottawa's diplomatic corps. Ambassador Benavides had no trouble persuading 32 of his colleagues. A silver cigar box, they decided, would be just the thing, and it should be engraved with the signatures of the mission heads...
...abstractedly nodded: 'Babe Ruth was just a human citizen-a human American citizen.'" Westbrook Pegler, putting his worst (kickless) foot forward, told how Ruth, "a burly oaf [who] could suck half a pound of tobacco and spit through his ears," had autographed a baseball for him, a gift that helped him win his bride 26 years...
...Turku (Finland), the Finnish Bible Society happily prepared to sell ten tons of coffee, a gift from the American Bible Society. Admitted free of duty by the Finnish Government and sold on the free market, the coffee would bring about twelve times the $4,500 it had cost in the U.S.-and provide the cash to buy a new Bible House to replace the one Russia destroyed in World...
...Gift at the Gate. Jungle Man, Pretorius' autobiography (he,died in 1945), could have done with a dash of the Hemingway talent. It is competently written, but with a calm matter-of-factness that makes a commonplace of every act of fantastic nerve and daring. Pretorius spent years in unexplored territory and established precarious friendships with cannibals and tribes openly committed to the exclusion of whites. He had a good ear for their dialects, which he learned, and a nice inquiring eye for aboriginal customs. In one tribe he found what must have been the simplest form of courtship...
Dedicated by Generalissimo & Mme. Chiang Kai-shek as a Christian church in Nanking: the presidential mansion. The Chiangs, who live elsewhere, had promised themselves (in 1937) that they would convey the mansion as such a gift if the Japanese were defeated...