Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First warning of the onslaught came on Thursday, October 21, when a solitary brave wandered into the Stoughton Hall quarters of one David B. Shaw and demanded lodging for the night. Ughing something about the provisions of a gift of bricks used to build the original Stoughton Hall in 1695, he claimed that the building's charter entitled all Indians to free lodging in the Yard dormitory...
Canada's wedding gift to Princess Elizabeth will be antique silver and a Canadian wild mink coat. The silver is just what she wants for setting up housekeeping, Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced last week. He got the tip from 64-year-old Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, wife of the former Governor General and a relative, by both blood and marriage, of the bride.* Princess Alice herself will select the silver, which will then be inscribed with Canada's best wishes...
Like everyone else, Harry Truman had his worries; as President he had more than the normal share. But nothing seemed to dampen his resilient spirits. Last week he was having the time of his life passing out two boxes of shiny new pens, the gift of an anonymous admirer. On each was stamped the same inscription he uses on his match folders: "I swiped this from Harry S. Truman...
...Christian-persecuting Pharisee and Augustine was a brilliant, dissolute young Manichee about 4th Century Carthage. Each felt himself to have been saved by God through no merit or initiative of his own, indeed almost against his will. This, they said, was the grace of God: a divine gift bestowed not on the worthy-for all men are equally deserving of damnation-but to a few selected by God for His own unfathomable reasons...
...Boston Public Library more than $1,000,000 to set up a trust fund. For the presentation, he showed up in an uncomfortably new grey suit, the side pockets of which were fastened with safety pins as a protection against pickpockets. The library's board gratefully accepted his gift and agreed to his stipulation that income from the fund be used to build a John Deferrari wing containing his portrait...