Word: exhibitionistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farewell to Grace. His chapter on Grace Moore was written before her death: ". . . she was one of those obnoxious little girls, congenitally exhibitionist, for whom some sort of career that would keep her before the public gaze was inevitable. . . . She doesn't really love music...
...daredevil or exhibitionist, Slick Goodlin took over the job of testing the XS-1 on the understanding that he would fly it no faster than 82% of the speed of sound unless he was convinced that it would safely go faster. Approximately 20 more preliminary flights are planned between now and next summer; Goodlin has the privilege of recommending that the XS-1 be flown pilotless by radio control in its supersonic test. But last week, after months of devouring engineering and wind-tunnel reports, and after handling the plane under power, he said: "I know what this airplane...
Divorced. Margaret ("Peggy") Guggenheim Ernst, 48, uninhibited daughter of the late copper mogul Benjamin Guggenheim, exhibitionist of nonrealistic art; by Maximilian Maria ("Max") Ernst, 55, prizewinning surrealist (Temptation of St. Anthony) ; after five years of marriage (three of separation), no children; in Reno...
Negley Parson, onetime foreign correspondent, exhibitionist autobiographer (The Way of a Transgressor), took time out from novel writing for a small transgression in North Devon, England. A constable caught him driving drunkenly through Wollacombe, hauled him into court. Cost: ?25, license suspended for a year. But Author Farson found it all rather pleasant. "They were awfully nice to me," said he. "The constable took me to the police station and he, the police inspector, their two wives and I all had tea together...
According to James Montgomery Flagg, "doing an autobiography is something like getting undressed in your bedroom window." In his caper-cutting autobiography, published last week, he appears in his bedroom window, and, in literary underwear striped with exclamation points, strikes many an exhibitionist pose...