Word: talented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement by Campbell Bascom Slemp, astute Virginian. Mr. Slemp, onetime (1923-25) private secretary to President Coolidge and until that evening known as an outstanding "Coolidge-anyway" man, confessed to personal Hooverism and virtually promised the hitherto uninstructed Virginia delegation (15 strong). Also, since Mr. Slemp's talent for delegate-charming is almost fabulous, and since he had just returned from a Southern tour, observers were inclined to credit Hooverism with the week's chief forward march...
Harvard is blessed with advantages that make it especially attractive to the musically inclined student. The part of the faculty devoted to this subject is gifted: the Glee Club, the University Orchestra, and the Instrumental Clubs depend on student talent: the Music Building furnishes accommodations: the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Whiting concerts are visitors from outside that help endow the University in that art. Likewise the history and current events of music are here, to be had for the asking, or, as tonight, for the slight labor of attending a lecture...
...problem is whether there are to be four or five dominant trunk-lines westward from New York. The fifth, if at all, would be organized and run by Leonor Fresnel Loree, who now controls the Delaware & Hudson. Mr. Loree, grizzly-bear of railroads, Harriman's successor in talent, conferred for nearly three hours. His conferees represented four trunk-line adversaries: the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Van Sweringen merger group (once planned to be based on the Nickel Plate, now planned to be based on the Chesapeake & Ohio...
...controversy raised by the charges of commercialism and over-emphasis that seemed more numerous than ever this year. But the season has been even less carefree in those regions beyond the pale where the professionals exploit their prowess for financial gain. Tex Richard, the leading promoter of boxing talent, having taken the new champion, Gene Tunny, under his wing, organized what is known as an elimination tournament to select an opponent for him. But the result resembled that of the struggle between the Kilkenny cats, for when it was all over his several warriors had eliminated each other so thoroughly...
...Hoover, certainly, who is a remarkable administrator, with a talent for quick decisions and an unflagging interest in detail...