Word: talents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before Captain Robbie's white $ on its field of red can be sole consort of the stars and stripes on the Pacific, his son?and the Fleishhackers?must finish the battle. They have against them the legal talent of Senator Chamberlain, a hard fighter, the general reluctance of taxpayers to admit the necessity of selling $6,000,000 boats...
James Rorty, in The New York Herald-Tribune : ". . . Exhibits the maturity of a remarkable talent, which critical opinion will have to take account of and measure at leisure. . . . America has a new poet of genius...
...many questions are pressing for attention, it is doubly regrettable that Harvard has no forum for the focussing of student opinion. The Debating Union, spontaneously and enthusiastically organized last year, held several well attended meetings at which surprising interest, knowledge and forensic ability were revealed. While no startling rhetorical talent was discovered, the quality of the discussions was distinctly intelligent, and appeared to improve with each meeting as the participants, and anyone might participate, gained experience. During the first term of the current scholastic year, more successful meetings were held, which in addition had an undoubted educational value in clarifying...
...unfortunate that the Lampoon spends all of its meagre talent on its special issues. The current number, for instance, the St. Patrick's number, though much less amusing than a magazine ought to be, where the vigorous and noisy wit and humor of youth should run riotously, is undeniably better than the numbers unadorned by Mr. Child's interesting covers...
...aspired to master the stops and manuals of this great organ of the English speech until they could send wave on wave of music pealing through the naves and transepts of that most vast of all cathedrals--the Cathedral of the Human Spirit.... And these little flames of talent Copey, the lamp-lighter, tended faithfully (albeit somewhat brusquely on occasion, yet with his Jeremiads over a bad sentence over savored with Attic salt.) And the flames brightened and kindled other flames, as the Divine law of life is; and their lamps moved hither and yon, bringing into places that...