Word: talented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mile relay event is an open intercollegiate two-mile event at the B. A. A. games and with the addition of the Harvard team will provide the largest group of talent in a single relay as yet seen in that building...
...cast is distinguished by veteran and as well as new talent, and reads like a combined football and baseball lineup. The hero, Norman Rockwell, is portrayed by R. H. Booth '27, who is aided in his strenuous role by his pitching experience on last year's championship university baseball team. He is enamoured of one. Mary West, coy maid of the great open spaces, whose charms are subtly interpreted by Howard Whitmore '29, star not only of the stage but also of last year's Freshman team pitching staff...
...greatest tax suit in U. S. chronicles is not a time to economize on legal talent. The defendants have hired an impressive force: Joseph E. Davies, onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission; John W. Davis, De- mocratic nominee for President in 1924; and others, perhaps Charles E. Hughes. Against these bigwigs, Secretary Mellon has sent a smart young man of 27-Alexander W. Gregg. Mr. Mellon has been accused of possessing many kinds of genius, and not the least of them is his ability to pick certain youths from among other youths, and lift them to fame. Mr. Gregg...
...Corbett sisters, whose revue is to be staged at the University Theatre for Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week have just returned from a remarkable triumph at Detroit, where they came in competition with talent from all parts of the country...
Cleaning windows is poor training for painting landscapes, even river scenes. Scrubbing floors, poking up stairs which smell of last night's supper, dusting closets, beating carpetscause he had talent. A black man with talent might find a patron, but only because he was black. Palmer Hayden, Negro, found no patron. He washed windows for a living, painted scenes that he rememberednished pictures and two sketches, they depicted the Holy Land he is held, pretending to be an artist? The critics may have been right. Mr. Cornwall's work has a facility that keeps it from being important. He gets...