Word: talented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working for the U. S. Bureau of Education in Alaska, became worried about the Eskimos; they were starving. He imported from Siberia a herd of 1,280 reindeer, and some Lapp herdsmen to teach the Eskimos how to tend them.* The Eskimos, natural hunters and trappers, but with little talent for agriculture, were not successful. Carl Lomen noticed this. He wanted to try his hand with reindeer but found that by Government decree no white man could engage in the industry. He learned, however, that the Government would allow a certain contract, due to expire in 1914, to succeed...
Undoubtedly, the mating of two persons with marked similar talent in music, art or politics will produce offspring endowed with the same talent. But, "clanbred talent" tends to produce experts with a decided lack of understanding of things outside their own sphere. Such progeny are likely to be dull and stupid, cherishing rigid forms and traditions. Genius, on the other hand, results from the crossing of dissimilar high mental traits resulting in a complicated psychological structure in which the components of two strongly opposing germ plasms remain in polar tension throughout life. This tension exerts a driving force and produces...
...Louis Persinger. Unlike Yehudi, he is neither chubby nor Jewish, but a slender Italian. His father is Pietro Ricci, welder in a San Francisco foundry, trombonist, onetime music teacher in San Mateo and Santa Clara public schools. The family is poor, but all the children have unusual musical talent. Rosa, 13, plays the piano; Lorraine, 10, the cornet; Ruggiero, 9, and Giorgio, 7, the violin; Emma, 4, the drums and cymbals; and even Virginia, 2, sings perfectly in tune. Three years ago the Ricci children had their own little band, picked up what pennies they could in their neighborhood. About...
...last week. Her husband is older than she. She kills him when he is pummeling a boy who tried to kiss her. Her lawyer, who is her real lover, convinces the jury that her husband committed suicide. Throughout these proceedings Greta Garbo wears beautiful, oulandish clothes. At times her talent even brings a flash of something vital and convincing to the dull, over-photographed sequences. Best shot: three cleaning women eating lunch at the judge's bench after session...
...urged American educators to make the drastic changes demanded by their own needs instead of turning to England for inspiration and talent. The English system under which the college authorities act independently could not be reconciled with the ownership and management of American universities by a board of trustees. --The Boston Herald...