Word: flair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shrewdness and flair and certainly Kate, enabled the young Deputy to climb to the top of his party, National Liberal, now grown into the German Peoples' Party. She may have bought him the portrait of Napoleon or the one of Byron. Anyhow he still keeps both...
When the great fire was finally extinguished there were, of course, no stories printed about Princess Eudoxia. Her flair for doing good and avoiding praise amounts to genius. She will never be a popular figure, except among grateful Bulgarians, who know of her by word of mouth. Her meticulously written Memoirs are the confessions of a very earnest soul which has nothing to confess: "Upon rising in the morning it is my custom to go at once to my brother and help him with his fairly bulky correspondence. . . . We partake of ... breakfast and frequently dine together at about...
...personal prestige is not of a kind which would stand up well in competition with the intimate personal quality of Gov. Smith's popularity. Mr. Hoover's virtues suggest the clean precision of the scientific man. They are abstract and intellectualized. He has not the flair of a man like Vice President Dawes for heating the blood, and he does not convey that sense of apostolic authority which surrounds Mr. Hughes...
...Nugent '30 was sent into the game at short stop in the seventh frame, and G. E. Donaghy '29 was shifted to third, replacing A. G. Whitney '29. This combination turned out extraordinarily well. Nugent seems to have a flair for double plays, for the Sophomore player started two and served as pivot in a third in the last three innings...
...short test flight was hastily arranged and an Irishman climbed into the seat beside Pilot Koehl and the controls. Commandant James Fitzmaurice it was, and, as befitted an adventurous Irish lad of 30 with a flair for the romantic and a record for the daring, he was head of the Air Force of the Irish Free State. He too wanted to fly across the Atlantic; had, indeed, made a start last September with Capt. Robert H. Mclntosh in the Fokker monoplane Princess Xenia, only to turn back after three hours' weary bicker with the winds...