Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ominously: "Around the roulette tables there will be created centers of intrigue and espionage." But on most nights during the first week's play scarcely 100 gamblers made the trek up the mountain. Nearly all were Italians from modest Adriatic beach resorts, with little money and no talent for intrigue...
...flamboyant Times-Herald, it would mean a return to the distaff rule that the newspaper had known for eleven whirling-dervish, moneymaking years under the late Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson. But there the resemblance ended: in temperament and talent, Bazy and her distant cousin were as different as sugar and spice...
...than sinner. Corrupted by her early reading of "lush "romances, she developed a love of fine clothes and luxurious emotions which her life as a peasant's daughter did little to satisfy. Her difference from other women lay not in her tastes and temptations, but in her ruthless talent for translating them into fact...
...quarrels with his fellow Frenchmen, finally retired to an isolated island of the Marquesa group. There he hoped "that the completely savage atmosphere and solitude will, before I die, inspire me with a new fire of enthusiasm which will renew my imagination and put the finishing touch to my talent...
...often seemed little more than hurried illustrators of passing quips. Yet the best of them, typified by Punch's present Editor Cyril K. Bird (portraits of England's beleaguered middle class) and the Evening Standard's bumptious David Low, showed the old English bite and a talent for good-natured selfcriticism, albeit streamlined...