Word: flair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unfortunately, as the Governor well knew, the Filipinos have a much greater flair for politics and political scheming than for commerce and civil engineering. Perhaps the Governor sighed. But he had really little to fear in the nature of an immediate rumpus from the Legislature, for the reason that all the real political leaders are in this country, junketing and ineffectually agitating for Insular independence...
...forceful yoking of two creatures so wildly attuned and so woefully apart. Despite the everyday naturalness of his domestic shambles, he makes out no general case for marriage as a vise and a vice. Plentifully in evidence is his instinctive plumbing of the human heart, and his flair for real talk in copious draughts. But the searchlight of his realism throws up figures that are drab instead of highly colored. Jacob Ben Ami rather luxuriates in suffering. He pities himself with much fervor. Doris Keane, his costar, shows her customary sensitive discrimination, but reads her lines like the Psalms. Catherine...
...formerly of the University of Chicago, is the President, and is known as the "Father" of the new nation. But since its birth, he has not borne a preponderant part of the battle. He has been often sick. Benes is young, of sturdy build, shrewd, quick-witted, with a flair for conversation, light or heavy. When he speaks English he is never at a loss for a word; if he cannot remember the word for "mines" he snaps out "industries metallurgiques" in the French accent comprehensible to AngloSaxons. He has attended nearly every international conference since...
...future the popular press of Great Britain will, as to about five-sixths of its issue, be in the hands of two men, both of them inferior to Lord Northcliffe in journalistic flair, and one of them, Lord Rothermere, of a purely commercial type. In itself, the union marks a further lowering of a not very high standard of London daily journalism, for the Evening Standard, which belonged to the Hulton group, was the best edited evening newspaper in London, adapted to a rather higher standard of culture than any of its rivals, while the Sunday Chronicle, published in Manchester...
...Significance. A picturesque, rapid narrative, superbly adapted for spectacular filming, especially as regards the Argentinian episodes, where Ibanez, with his flair for local color, is rather better than when attempting to describe high society in the Ouida vein. A well constructed novel, whose catchy title should lure a large public?not one-tenth-of-one-percent. of durability in its fabric, but very saleable goods for the Autumn trade...