Word: flair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harman Blennerhassett was gifted with some talent for music and a flair for science; a contemporary notes that he had "all sorts of sense but commonsense." At 31, seven years after the Bastille's fall, he married his niece, the beauteous and witty Margaret Agnew whose father was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. Ostracized by both families, the honeymooning couple crossed the Atlantic to New York. Hunting for a home in the wilderness, they reached Pittsburgh by post, floated down the Ohio River on a keelboat. Some 14 miles below Marietta and hard by the mouth...
...year to an official from overseas whose legal status is "the Person of the King in Canada," then they want to get something for their money. Admirers of the first Baron Tweedsmuir, while generous in their tributes to John Buchan's intellectual gifts, single out his extreme flair for effective flattery, conveyed with canny Scottish tact and disarming Scottish directness, as the mainspring of his jack-in-the-box bounce to Viceroyalty...
...tape more CCCampers than there were soldiers in the U. S. Army (116,000). General Craig of St. Joseph, Mo. and Mrs. Craig of Berkeley, Calif, might have posed for the purposeful pair in Artist Grant Wood's American Gothic. The Army could not expect the amount of flair from spectacled 60-year-old Chief-of-Staff Craig that it witnessed during the extraordinary term of extraordinary Chief-of-Staff MacArthur. But the Army knew it had a leader who would carry on with minimum nonsense, get things done...
Article 42 & Article 43. Adolf Hitler, with his intuitive flair for what is and is not vital, anticipated last week's outbreak of war when he said at the recent Nazi Party Congress, "We will remain neutral with respect to developments which do not concern Germany directly, and our wish is not to become involved in such developments." (TIME, Sept...
Harassed by lawsuits, investigations and public suspicion, Howard Colwell Hopson, 53, resigned as officer and director of all Associated Gas & Electric units. Though usually listed in Associated reports as vice president & treasurer, the bald, roly-poly utilitarian with the flair for corporate obscurantism was the system's undisputed boss. He, not President John Isaac Mange, was the quarry in the Washington manhunts staged last summer by rival and Senate inquisitors (TIME, July...