Word: talents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Freshmen are still an unknown quantity, it is expected that today's scrimmage will uncover some new talent. At the same time the Varsity squad will receive a stiff workout...
...will be made after the initial scrimmage on Friday. Barton Kelly and John Kennedy, brothers of the famous Shaun and Joe Kennedy respectively, Hoar, Duane, DeVine and McGruder appear to be most promising for the flank positions, while at tackle George Downing, Hallett, Healey and Phil Hallowell have displayed talent...
...October 1934, when General Johnson resigned as NRAdministrator, he had shown in his public speeches an old professional writer's picturesque gift of phrase. (As an Army officer he began by writing West Point stories for boys.) In March 1935, he employed this literary talent in his famed denigration of Radio-priest Coughlin and Louisiana's late Huey P. Long (TIME, March 18, 1935). Impressed, United Feature signed up the General to do a "lighting" daily column. Though Hugh Johnson Says began with a bang, it soon degenerated to a mere pop. Returning from abroad last April, Scripps...
...filled with citizens who overflowed the bleachers, stood on the baseball diamond. On a platform draped with flags sat the guest of honor, surrounded by friends and microphones. Over a national hookup flowed the public voices of Lowell Thomas, Ford Bond, John B. Kennedy-a battery of radio talent extolling Mr. Sheldon's 35 years as boss of Allegheny. Civic representatives spoke in praise of Mr. Sheldon's benefactions. Telegrams and letters of congratulations were read from Weirton Steel's Ernest Tener Weir, Bethlehem Steel's Charles Michael Schwab, Pennsylvania Railroad's Martin Withington Clement...
...language, their mastery of rhythm, their melancholy speculative tone-as well as by the inveterate ambiguity of their meaning-the verses included in The Assassins ranged from night thoughts on the shores of the Baltic to an evocation of Alexandria at noon, gave an impression of a strong talent somewhat overburdened with literary allusions and traditional poetic moods. Possessing none of the sardonic mockery that distinguishes so much post-War poetry. Frederic Prokosch writes of ruins that call to mind the brevity of human life, invokes the stars and the sea as symbols of permanence, speculates on the prehistoric innocence...