Word: giftedly
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...work is always distinguished by a rigid adherence to freedom. He would rather die than be usual. The result is a riot of noise and color, of poems sprawling across and around and through the page. His phrases are unforgettable and wholly unique. Whether or not he has the gift of the inevitable word, he at least can always find the unexpected one. Cummings is intrusively frank, self-consciously courageous, flinging his novelties with a somewhat superfluous clamor into his reader's face. Out of his experimentation may come almost anything...
Percy Hammond: "Just another example of Shaw's gift for interminable rag chewing...
Gabriele d'Anminzio, Italian poet-airman: "The Associated Press reported that I had 'given my all' to Italy. They quoted me as saying in a lengthy deed of gift: 'I offer all that remains of me to the Italian people...
Therefore, it was no free gift, but rather a quid pro quo which Secretary of the Navy Denby offered to the editors of a number of prominent newspapers. He invited them to take a three weeks' cruise in southern waters, beginning Jan. 10, to see the war manoeuvres of the U. S. Fleet at first hand. The trip will include visits to Culebra Island, San Juan, Porto Rico and St. Thomas, opportunity to inspect ships and be present on the war vessels during actual manoeuvres. Thus will the public learn of its Navy, the Navy get free advertising...
...start has been made in a new department by the gift of several fragments of fifteenth century English stained glass all together in one frame from Mr. Roy Crosvenor Thomas, and the loan of a much earlier stained glass window...