Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particularly confident that it is well conceived to meet the needs of the educated woman in our society," he continued. President Jordan opined that married women require a greater degree of adaptability of mind and flexibility of talent than do their husbands, and that these are the qualities that the General Education program seeks to impart...
...good deal of care and talent have been lavished on the Garden. Aside from Principals O'Brien and Stockwell, who handle their tears and tantrums with equal facility, there are good performances by Herbert Marshall, Elsa Lanchester as a chuckleheaded Yorkshire maid, and Reginald Owen as a grumpy old gardener...
Miss Arizona, trim (5 ft. 4 in., 106 lbs.), brunette Jacque Mercer, a rancher's daughter from Litchfield, was crowned Miss America of 1949. She won over a field of 52, after preliminary victories in the bathing-suit division and talent class (she wowed them with a dramatic reading of the death scene from Romeo and Juliet). Her prizes: a $5,000 scholarship (which she hopes to take at Stanford), a $3,000 Nash sedan. Her plans: "Marriage first, a career second...
Blackouts isn't without talent of sorts, but it is utterly without cispness or taste. The show (with cigar-chewing Murray as M.C.) is informal to the point of sloppiness, as though the only alternative to a boiled shirt were an egg-stained vest. And as nothing is too vulgar for Blackouts, so nothing is too venerable-one of its borrowed skits helped make Fannie Brice famous...
Author Janeway showed a mildly original talent for characterization in a first novel (The Walsh Girls, TIME, Nov. 29, 1943). Her second (Daisy Kenyan, TIME, Nov. 19, 1945) was as confused as the neurotics she wrote about. The Question of Gregory shows no particular improvement and raises the question why writers are encouraged to churn out novels whose people are as unbelievable and basically as uninteresting as poor old John Gregory...