Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long ago Leonard Feather, England's gift to the jazz critic's profession, arranged an album for the Victor company called "Esquire's All-American Hot Jazz." It features some of the musicians chosen by the Esquire people, including Mr. Feather, for their 1946 Gold Awards. There are four twelve-inch sides, three of which represent the not quite successful efforts of such noteworthies as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Red Norvo to turn a trio of Feather's weird compositions into memorable music...
...upon a time (so the legend went), a beautiful girl of the proud Dyak tribe persistently scorned a young warrior; desperate as a procrastinating shopper on Christmas Eve, he finally hit on the idea of bringing her a human head. His beloved tenderly declared that this was indeed a gift worthy of a Dyak maiden's heart, and consented to be his bride. Ever since then, the men of Borneo have been passionate headhunters...
...Governor thoroughly expected that it would drive wily 37-year-old Attorney Bill Jenner into the G.O.P. senatorial nomination. Jenner had been in county politics for twelve years, spent over two years in the Army as a captain, served an interim term in the Senate, and had the gift of oratory. He was respected and trusted by almost all Indiana's organization Republicans. But he had to beat both a high-wheeled conservative (stodgy 70-year-old Senator Raymond E. Willis) and a jet-propelled progressive (Congressman Charles M. LaFollette...
...Stanky's flair for getting goats is only a secondary virtue. His major gift is a nearly unerring eye: he knows the good pitches from the bad and so is able to let the bad ones go past without swinging at them. Last week, with 14 more free walks, his season's total was 52. Last year Brooklyn's writhing runt set a National League record with...
House & Garden Harry S. Truman received a gift from the James F. Byrneses: a double portrait, in oil, by Grace Annette Du Prê, of himself and his 93-year-old mother. Another recent portrait of her already hung in his second-floor study...