Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charities "aiding needy children, especially homeless and orphan children," the residue of her multimillion-dollar estate; to her granddaughter, Ellen Pearson Arnold, daughter of Columnist Drew Pearson (who had long been trading blows in print with his ex-mother-in-law), nothing, "inasmuch as I have made a substantial gift to her during my lifetime...
Fogo, a Halifax lawyer, Nova Scotia-born-&-bred, is a man without political ambitions for himself, a reliable worker behind the scenes, whose political gift is to stop bootless quarreling and secure quiet settlements. Liberals expect him to make a good convention co-chairman (French-Canadian cochairman, Joseph Blanchette). But since he was only 23 when the last Liberal convention was held, he has a bit to learn about the procedure...
...been closely cropped. [At 41] he is solidly built and of medium height. His eyes are closely set and deeply lined . . . The brown hair under his partisan cap was long and bushy; rebellious strands kept sliding down his forehead. His mouth is broad and expressive. He has the gift of a quick and charming smile that can alter instantly a face which, in repose, seems hard, impatient, pitiless...
...cameraman Karl Freund and the players get it on to film. Huston takes such expert, type-tired players as Bogart, Robinson, Barrymore, Trevor and Gomez, and gets such performances from them that they seem like new people. He draws a simple, sharply individualized performance out of Lauren Bacall. His gift for catching the realities of danger and violence is unique; Bogart's quietness and caution is a hundred times as true and exciting (and as brave, for that matter), as the conduct he is usually required to pretend. And Huston is a master of atmosphere: the whole picture reeks...
Gasping Housekeeper Nesbitt spent her first term struggling against chaos. Already, "world leaders were swooping down on us from all directions"-and terrifying memos were swooping down from Mrs. Roosevelt ("Mrs. Nesbitt: There will be 5,000 to tea"). Salesmen stormed the doors with "gift" samples of everything from cravats to cheese; Peach, Cherry and Potato "Queens" left laden bushel baskets all over the floor; deputations stamped in & out; photographers' flashbulbs exploded like small arms. Eighty-three thousand casual visitors streamed through every month, leaving a trail of mud and cigarette butts...