Word: flair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official victims struck back at their radio tormenter by distributing about Trenton mimeographed sheets in which they snickered at Carter's "Bond Street elegance and Piccadilly flair," observed that he "flew through the air with the latest of cheese," recommended "more ether" for such radio commentators. Equally irate was Mercer County Grand Jury Foreman Allyne M. Freeman at Carter's implication that politics, not justice, motivated his jurymen. Cried Foreman Freeman: "A cowardly, libelous and malicious lie! I consider his comments an insult to the Grand Jury. I shall never accept a penny nor an ounce of political...
Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji, a high-strung Mohammedan with a natural flair for obstetrics, won his brilliant academic way to Edinburgh in 1927 and in this dingy grey and bleak seat of Scottish learning seduced a waitress by the name of Isabella Van Hess. Student Ratanji was then using the name "Gabriel Hakin," but on marrying his waitress he proceeded to become legally "Buck Ruxton." Soon, as Dr. Ruxton, he became a popular and prosperous gynecologist who delivered hundreds of well-to-do Lancaster mothers and had last week a fine snug house in Dalton Square...
...Asuncion this made the new Dictator feel that he had better say something which would sound enlightened, and, like most South Americans, he has a natural flair for such pure forensics. Calling in correspondents, Colonel Franco cried...
...year. In Manhattan, however, lean young Philo Taylor Farnsworth, one of the two top U. S. televisors, announced to the Institute of Radio Engineers a new cold-cathode amplifier which he believed would be immensely useful to radio in general, to television in particular. Mr. Farnsworth, who despite his flair for electronics has learned to talk like a tycoon, calls his new tube the multipactor. Ordinary thermionic tubes generate electrons by boiling them from a hot filament. The multipactor takes advantage of the fact that certain metals hold electrons in suspension on their surfaces in such a way that impacts...
Most experienced critics have little patience with the rank & file of young musicians who want to play in public. Marjorie Edwards was well above the average. She exhibited a real flair for the violin, fast-flying fingers that found the notes surely, an earnest sensitive approach to the music she played. Even so, finicky critics refused to pronounce her ripe for a concert career. The quality of her tone was often small and immature, best suited to the soft feathery Cuckoo which delighted her audience so much that she had to play it twice...