Word: talented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year in a try for a fourth term as Mayor of Boston, James Michael Curley was supposed to be "all washed up." But political weathermen knew that Governor Charles F. Hurley, since he succeeded Mr. Curley in the State House two years ago, had been exercising an unusual talent for repelling people and making enemies. His downfall was forecast when he failed to put over a $23,625,000 fund for his Highway Department last June. The Republican Legislature, fuming because he kept it in session most of the summer, finally voted only $5,000,000 and placed...
...exposure and limited field of vision. This fraction may be very slight or very great, depending on the photographer's luck, care and awareness. To know where and when good shots can be made takes intelligence and a wakeful eye. To register them with the camera requires talent...
...expressive style that is straight-forward and almost conversational Dorothy Baker describes how Rick Martin, a boy with musical talent, naturally turned toward swing music since it was the only music where he lived. There, in the midst of good jazz which, as Miss Baker says, 'comes right out of genuine urge and doesn't come for money," the boy lived and breathed swing and gradually developed into one of the finest trumpeters in the country. Success and money came rapidly but they could not stop Rick, he couldn't stop; he kept on playing-pushing himself beyond the limits...
...their son was run over. Written in the same slow tempo as Farrell's earlier works, with characters who were fatuous when they were not brutal, it gave an even more dispiriting picture of a sodden, sullen, sick environment, revealed no new facet of either Farrell's talent or of the life of the neighborhood...
...much of the contradictions in London's career-his belief in socialism and his desire for wealth, his belief in sexual freedom and his desire for a quiet home life, his enormous good nature and his periods of despondency. Author Stone also tries to trace London's talent to his father, who was, he says, not John London but an eccentric, intelligent astrologer named Chaney. Whoever his father was, London spent such an adventurous youth that his stored-up experiences were good for 16 years of novel writing. He had been an oyster pirate in San Francisco...