Word: talented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five times father. Bromide, he had said "No woman ever made anything more beautiful than a complete and perfect baby," but Arachne swore she preferred making the complete and perfect web of brilliant silks. Athene promised to teach her, and repented when the pupil surpassed her instructress in talent and conception-dangerous impertinence. Her prosaic lover defined romance as "uncomfortable and dangerous things happening to someone else," but Arachne's malapert masterpiece was a nevertheless romantic tapestry of gods and their foibles. To Athene's vengeful annoyance, a jury of immortals promptly, indifferently, judged it superior...
...hands and a simple tool. Brandt, after he became successful in Paris before the War, had a large factory in which he made his graceful gates, balconies, doors and figured fire screens. During the War his plant was converted into a gun factory, and Edgar Brandt used his talent in metal for machines whose extreme beauty was that of cruel efficiency. When the War was over he designed the Bayonet Trench Monument near Verdun, presented by George Franklin Rand, Buffalo banker, and dedicated to the memory of the soldiers who had been killed at Verdun; he made the grating that...
...Cyclone Lover. One is compelled to suppose that the U. S. embodiment of the ideal lover is a gawky youth, timid and smirking, fond of stupid jokes and possessed with a dreary talent for unnecessary heroics. Herein he makes his too-customary stage appearance. Tongue-tied and blushing, he sees the daughter of a millionaire shipowner and goes infatuate. Then no longer is he a modest nonentity, almost incapable of thought or speech. Awkwardly demoniac instead, he kidnaps the girl of his lamentable dreams while she is in the act of marrying a rogue, takes her away upon a yacht...
Both gentlemen spoke to the merchants. Said John Erskine: "Music should be taught, like history, in high schools. . . . There is great talent in the country. . . . The difficulty, however, is that the teachers are not in touch with the talent...
Four members of the University will compete against the best track and field talent of the Eastern States in the final Olympic tryouts of the Middle Atlantic District at the Yankee Stadium, New York City, on Saturday. All four of these men won first places in the New England tryouts at Melrose last Saturday...