Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...versatility, resourcefulness, taste, feeling for detail. He may not have the creative power of such an old master as Robert Edmond Jones, the freshness of up-&-coming George Jenkins, the occasional witty elegance of Howard Bay. But he is seldom commonplace. To Writer Djuna Barnes his unique gift is "to lay age upon his settings," give them "a rich patina of occupancy...
Admiral Jean-Francois Dorian's 61-year-old widow, Berthe, still in & around Warm Springs, Ga., with partly paralyzed son Alain, bought slippers for a gift, tried them on, promptly slipped, crashed, broke her elbow...
...library. To Sibley, the "excitement" about the proposed building was "a great strain on my nerves." There was much more than "strain" connected with the "Titanic" tragedy which caused the death of Harry Elkins Widener, from whom the University received a valuable book and manuscript collection. His gift contained the stipulation that a suitable building be provide, whereupon his mother donated the columned hall. In comparison to this, the $1,500,000 gift of Thomas W. Lamont '92 was revealed in a casual note. And to this, with the same manipulation of zeros, another $1,500,000 will be added...
...Mermaids Singing (by John van Druten; produced by Alfred de Liagre Jr.) puts a pleasant little bauble in a very large box and fills in all the open spaces with tissue paper. The result, as always with an overwrapped gift, is disappointing...
Last fortnight the bank announced that it was ready to expand to the rest of the U.S. It will solicit funds and healthy eyes. (Eyes are given by bequest and arrangements with surviving relatives, or by gift from people who must lose them by surgery.) The money will be used to provide scholarships to doctors all over the U.S. who want to learn the corneal grafting technique, and to establish bank branches wherever they are needed...