Word: talents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eliot lived for many years with a man to whom she was not married, because of the inexorable divorce laws of the period, is treated with the common sense and dignity with which George Eliot herself regarded it. As a matter of fact Miss Haldane does not have the talent for "human interest"; she gives the background of Mary Ann Evans in a thoughtful and competent style, but she does not attempt to give color and sparkle to an essentially serious story Yet in the end the figure of the brilliant, high-minded woman emerges, the writer...
...this Gallo boy is the world's young est conductor. On May 14, he will give a public performance in the Engineering Society Auditorium in Manhattan. Few composers, conductors, instrumentalists and singers have achieved mature fame but were "child prodigies" to start with. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed talent at 4, genius (in public) at 6, which was Josef Hofmann's age at his piano debut and Nellie Melba's when she first sang to Melbourne, Australia. Handel was skilled on the organ, Meyerbeer on the piano, Schumann at composing, Kreisler and Joachim on the violin...
...raise some houses -schoolhouses. Near Calhoun, Ga., where Roland Hayes was born, he has bought 600 acres and will build an institution as a memorial to his mother, to whom he ascribes all his success. The name: "Angelmo" (contraction of "Angel mother"). The nature: "a place where inspiration and talent and ambition of any kind among my own people, (and yours, too, if any of them choose to come; the doors will never be closed), will be trained and given an outlet. ... I do not aim at impressiveness in the buildings or equipment. All must be secondary to the quality...
...production of light, heat, and power from fuels and falling water; electric communications; the manufacture of chemicals, engines, machines, and innumerable commodities; railway, highway, and water transportation, and the construction and operation of numerous works for public safety and welfare. These enterprises require many kinds of talent in a great variety of duties, such as the planner, the builder the inventor, the investigator and the executive, requiring a knowledge of men and things as well as a training in science...
...will throw the hammer, C. A. Pratt '27 and W. P. Locke '27 the discus and these two men and David Guarnaccia '29 the shot. In the javelin throw T. G. Moore '29 are the best present bets. These are only last year's scorers and much new talent may be uncovered this spring...