Word: talenting
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...Spaniard. Though he has had no old ones, this is a book about his young days, before they shot to kill in Dublin and before England knighted Orpen for mocking some of her greatest lords in sharp colors with an impish brush. It was a time of talent in Dublin, with George Moore mooning about, John M. Synge writing his plays, James Stephens his poetry, quiet young James Joyce his sketches and energetic Sir Hugh Lane slaving to make Dublin a European Art centre...
...that Mrs. Gershwin detected any seeds of musical talent in her grubby young son. Se bought the piano because her sister-in-law had one. There it stood, big and shiny; it had cost a lot of money, and no one in the Gershwin family-not even Ira, the oldest, who was certainly a smart boy- could make music on it. George would have to learn. For some time the neighbors suffered; then they advised him to study in Europe. His first teacher died when he was still torturing Chopin's preludes. Max Rosen, famed violinist, told...
...worship a little. To see John Drew upon the stage playing a scene in classic comedy with Laurette Taylor; to meet Mrs. Thomas Whiffin, Amelia Bingham and Violet Heming in the same cast; to hear ovations and the curtain speeches-all these things are to find concentrated the talent and devotion of distinguished lifetimes, giving homage to an ideal and receiving it in kind. It mattered not last week that Manhattan suffered from the most persistent heat wave of recent times. People gave up their roof gardens and their evening in the country to watch this brilliant assembly. John Drew...
...production of light, heat and power from fuels and falling water; electric communication; the manufacture of chemicals, engines, machines and innumerable commodities; railway, highway and water transportation; and the construction and operation of numerous works for the public safety and welfare. These enterprises require many kinds of talent in a great variety of duties, such as the planner, the builder, the inventor, the scientific investigator and the executive, requiring a knowledge of men and things as well as a training in science...
John Philip Sousa is recognized as one of the most gifted and authoritative band conductors in the country and his spirited and tuneful melodies have won a deserved popularity the world over. He early showed evidence of marked musical talent and started his work as a conductor at the age of 17. In 1880 he became the leader of the United States Marine Band and held that position until 1892, when he organized and directed his own personal organization...