Word: talented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Switzerland. The other is his friend George Potter (Melvyn Douglas) who, also in love with Kay and aware that Gene already has a wife, joins the junket as chaperon. In Switzerland Kay and her companions have time to try everything from fancy skating, for which Claudette Colbert reveals unsuspected talent, to falling off a bob-sled at 60 m.p.h., before Gene's wife (Mona Barrie) appears at the ice bar of the Hotel St. Georg. This disrupts their holiday, forces Kay, back in Paris where her U. S. admirer has followed her, to decide which one of her suitors...
...League in St. Louis when she decided her real calling was to preserve U. S. folklore. Miss Knott got help from old George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard, North Carolina's Paul Green, the late Novelist Mary Austin and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. By 1934 she had interested enough volunteer talent to put on the first National Folk Festival in St. Louis. She arranged the second Festival in Chattanooga, last year's in Dallas. Envoys from colleges and towns, winners of State Festivals were welcomed. Some sponsor always paid the deficit. This year Chicago's Adult Education Council agreed...
Septimus Winner was a plain man who, on the side, wrote blank verse for which he had no talent, worried discreetly over his drunken father. He was also responsible for 200 texts on how to play instruments, 2,000 piano and violin arrangements. His brother Joseph determined to write song hits too, resoundingly succeeded once with Little Brown Jug, Don't I Love Thee. As Septimus was more prolific, so was his end more picturesque. On a fine November day in 1902 he attended the dedication of a new building for his alma mater, the old High School, shook...
This summer the Club plans a three-week expedition to the Selkirk Mountains in Western Canada. Eight men have already signified their intention of going on the trip, and if new talent is uncovered on the final weekend jaunt, more will be invited...
First step was to finish Luke's education. Architecture was to be Luke's field. But somewhere along the way his quiet talent turned to teaching; by the time he had his Ph.D., architecture and the stage were alike long forgotten. Margery was content to have only the career of being Luke's wife, but she was bound that Luke was to be an acknowledged great man. While he kept plodding through the academic maze, Margery did her best to keep up with him, was beguiled into one blind alley after another. By the time Luke...