Word: talents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Merola who conducted. Otto H. Kahn was there, guest of Robert I. Bentley, head of the local organization, spoke, as is his wont, said in effect what he has said many times before, that the time will come before long when great and now frequently wasted U. S. opera talent will have its full opportunity in a circuit of organizations producing the masterpieces of music drama all over...
...with writing of various kinds. Besides the terse, vigorous style required in producing news stories, there will be ample opportunity for more creative writing. The special articles, feature writing, and interviews with illustrous persons, which comprise a large part of the work, all hang for their success upon individual talent and personal idiom. The training is beneficial not only in developing writing ability, but also in forming habits of rapid, accurate expression...
Railroad men have a way of being self-made. Lawrence Downs is thoroughly a part of this tradition. After graduating from Purdue he went to work as a rodman for the I. C., rose steadily through the engineering department. A heavy man, mentally and physically, his particular talent is a blunt, wholehearted affability which endears him to all members of a profession in which this gift is the norm of social intercourse. "Handling men," he has said, "is largely a matter of getting them to like you." Charles Markham has said the same thing; Stuyvesant Fish said...
...older Thomas Moran, ancestor of all, brought his family from Bolton, Lancashire, to Philadelphia in 1844. The boys went to the public schools. The talent of Edward, the eldest, developed first and it was he who first gave lessons to young Thomas after the latter had tried being a wood engraver's apprentice, cabinetmaker, bronzeworker, housepainter, weaver, and mender of looms. Before long, Ruskin saw a plate by Thomas Moran Jr, in a London exhibition and singled it out as the finest contribution from...
Casual, unobtrusive, the Marquis Panlucci Decaboli, private secretary to Premier Mussolini, boarded a wagon-lit at Rome two months ago, and was whisked toward Spain -ostensibly to visit his father-in-law, the Italian Ambassador at Madrid. The Marquis, a diplomat of talent, force, parts contrived by the aid of the Spanish news censor to escape all but purely social notice in the press of Madrid. Many a woolgathering foreign spy failed even to note the astute Marquis's occasional late suppers with Foreign Minister Yanguas of Spain, after which the Marquis occasionally remained until near dawn. Last week...