Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph J.. Koenig was a successful manufacturer of gift-shop novelties, with a pleasant middle age ahead of him. At that point, instead of taking up golf or Sunday painting, he decided that he might enjoy going to college-he never...
...natural vote-getter; he has an Irish gift for phrase. But he refuses to indulge in dramatics. His automobiles-a black Cadillac and a black Plymouth sedan-bear no special licenses, no big red lights. "I don't like topside in government getting special favors," he says, "the peasants jumping out of the way and all that. I think people sort of like that stuff-but it's bad for them. Government should permeate. It shouldn't crush...
...house. It sits amid sweeping lawns just above the East River Drive near Hell Gate, a spot which General George Washington once fortified against the British. He is served by a maid, a cook, a gardener, a police chauffeur and a butler with an Irish brogue and a gift for mixing fine Martinis...
Woman's Angle. Mrs. Gowles won her reputation as a career girl before Look did. As a 16-year-old Bostonian with a gift of gab, she talked herself into a $100-a-week advertising job with Gimbels in Manhattan. By 1936 she had an advertising agency of her own and was making $20,000 a year. On Passport No. 1492, she was the first U.S. businesswoman to visit Europe after V-E day. In 1946 she quit her agency to work with the Famine Emergency Committee. Nine months later she and Publisher "Mike" Cowles, friends since 1941, were...
...things that used to be best about the best Disney movies are now so emphatically good that they verge on mere blatancy; the old weaknesses have grown a hundred times their old size. The draftsmanship is becoming rigid and frigid in a kind of gift-shoppe stylization. The outbursts of pure energy, though more restrained than in The Three Caballeros, still seem touched with homicidal mania. Nearly every attempt at cuteness, sweetness, tenderness, sublimity, results in one or another kind of painful simper. There is a frequent, unscrupulous alternation between the dreamy shimmer and the bang on the snoot...