Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...monument to the artist who made them famous. This oversight is now being corrected by Los Angeles Sculptor William Earl Singer, 57, who has cast a large head of Van Gogh, designed to reflect varying emotions as the sun passes over it, and has offered the sculpture as a gift, to be set up in a public place in Aries...
...like that, with those seven princesses waiting around, so the prince cleverly decided to organize a dishwashing contest, the winner to get his hand. Naturally, most of the princesses fainted dead away at the sight of all those dirty dishes, except for one evil and efficient type with a gift for sabotage, who finally won-but only temporarily, of course...
Dickey reads his poems at a rapid clip in a loud, racy voice. Most poets simply intone; Dickey almost roars. His performance in Lowell Lecture Hall featured more commentary than poetry; his gift as a raconteur tends to run away with him. In the space of about fifty minutes he read perhaps seven shortish poems, the balance of time being taken up with tales of Civil War relics and films about Jean Harlow. His audience ate it up. His touch of natural Southern rhetoric is quickly evident; he is somewhat oratorical even in conversation. His whole manner is flavored with...
...successful in brand competition among those who already smoke, do little to lure nonsmokers to the fold. Chairman John Partridge warned that Imperial would cut its prices if the coupon ban goes through, added that cheaper smokes could "have the effect of increasing total cigarette consumption" far more than gift premiums were ever able...
...intellectual snobbery was her worst defect, and he notes with a stranger's eye "a streak of incongruous archness in her humor which is almost ladylike and very disconcerting." Woolf mentions friendships, but the reader feels no warmth. He writes most affectionately of a marmoset named Mitz (the gift of a Rothschild), which rode on his shoulder on a tour of Hitler's Germany. The monkey stole the show and distracted the Brownshirts from Woolf's culpable Jewishness...