Word: flair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrived in the U. S. month ago, asked two ship-news reporters to kick her "for luck" (TIME, Dec. 2). Her performance last week proved that she could rely on something sounder than luck. She is an accomplished, rich-voiced singer with a commanding stage presence and a fine flair for acting. As Amneris she was regal enough to be a king's daughter. Throughout the performance she maintained more of the grand manner than any one on the stage, although John Charles Thomas projected a noble dignity as the captive Amonasro, Aïda's Haile Selassie...
...pleased with "Pudding Full of Plums". . . . It is one of the best acted and directed productions in several seasons and it is, which is even more important, the first play by a Harvard undergraduate given by the club in 17 years. Young Mr. Eager has a definite flair for writing dialogue, and he manages, with a skill not always found even in mature playwrights, to move his characters about in a manner that suggests natural impulse rather than the arbitrary manoeuvering of a puppet master. The theme of his play--the irreconcilability of opposite temperaments--is quite well handled...
...being blamed in any case for starting a new World War. The proposal to add oil to the Sanctions brew was not made by "The White Knight of Geneva," handsome young British League of Nations Minister Captain Anthony Eden, nor by his Government. With the seasoned diplomat's flair for keeping his own fingers out of the broth, Captain Eden went around to the League's International Labor Office and exerted his charm on that semi-Socialist and anti-Fascist quarter. Soon he had steamed up Chairman Dr. Walter Alexander Riddell of the Governing Body of the International...
Josephine Tumminia proved to be the find of the San Francisco season. She was a slender graceful actress with a fine flair for comedy. She exhibited a natural coloratura voice so flexible and sure that critics forgave her the occasional tones which were metallic and edgy. Proud Father Salvatore Tumminia found that business picked up following his daughter's success. Two days after her début Tenor Schipa climbed into Barber Tumminia's chair, let him lather his face while pretty Daughter Josephine trilled...
...wondered just what to do with the great engineer. Were not the presidency of Stanford University ably filled by Dr. Wilbur, it might have been a distinguished and honorable office for a political figure of Mr. Hoover's proportions. With no important mining schemes afoot, and with the old flair for executive positions definitely taking second place in favor of politics, it has been rather hard to crowd Mr. Hoover out of the picture. In fact, so far no one has had the temerity or ability to do so. Thick skins cannot be pierced with toothpicks...