Word: talents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moneyed uncle in Boston paid Sculptor Lovet-Lorski's passage to the U. S., of which he became a citizen in 1925. With a real talent for sculpture and a full bag of social tricks, "Lorochka" had no trouble in soon making a place for himself, has not lacked money, friends or customers...
...Tercentenary exercises had drawn no other talent, the speech by President Angell of Yale would have been enough to have made the occasion a memorable one. While President Conant's lips were sealed by his position as host, our neighboring educator pointed with cruel candour to the anachronism of the century: the presence of James M. Curley at a gathering of learned...
Discovery of the year was a 28-year-old Spanish-American from Taos, N. Mex. named Patrocino Barela, with an instinctive talent for wood carving. He presented a number of bultos, which are Southwestern religious carvings, each whittled from a single block of wood. To the most ambitious of these, a 14-in. stump of native pine carved into simplified interlocking trees and figures representing the Hope or Four Stages of Man, Whittler Barela appended his own explanation...
What Mayor White referred to as "This great cultural event'' turned out to be an ordeal in which the contestants were separately judged on qualifications including poise and charm, talent, personality, figure. First day the girls reported for duty at 9:30 a.m., postured in bathing suits for photographers, paraded, sang, danced, tootled saxophones in the first "talent" competitions. All gaped at acrobatic Evelyn Townley ("Miss Buckeye Lake, Ohio"), as she leaned over backwards, snatched a handkerchief from the floor with her teeth. They were still going at ir 11:30 p.m. when the American Beauty Ball started...
Next day tired beauties wobbled down the boardwalk in a bicycle parade, saw baby-faced Phyllis Dobson ("Miss California") win a trophy for being "the best looking girl on a bicycle." In the three "talent" competitions, rangy Gloria LeVinge ("Miss Birmingham") was one of the three winners. Warned by officials not to drink, smoke or speak to strangers, chaperoned by watchful relatives, the contestants modeled clothes at a fashion show, minced about in 300 expensive evening gowns, heard slinky Arlene Causey, 18 ("Miss Cook County, Ill.."), named the best-looking girl in clothes...