Word: flair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guess what he wants them to think, but inevitably Stalin succeeds in digging out much mental meat. He then sums up, gives his decision, and with sighs of relief the henchmen agree. This method, adopted by Mussolini from Machiavelli's II Principe, Stalin evolved from his innate Oriental flair for despotism. Charming when he chooses, Joseph Stalin, big-boned and big-mustached, last week asked small-boned, small-mustached Anthony Eden what he thought of Adolf Hitler. Thenceforth they got on famously. Snatches of their conversation as later divulged...
Venizelos changed all that. Born on Crete, equipped with an Athens law degree, he soon developed an extraordinary flair for leadership, a marvelous sense of situation, a nearly perfect aim with a revolver and one of the greatest poker faces in Europe. Crete was then still Turkish. Venizelos rapidly led two revolts, won Cretan autonomy, the first step toward union with Greece. The Greek Crown sent a chuckleheaded prince as Commissioner to Crete. With another revolt, Venizelos kicked him out because the prince looked on Cretans as a subject race. His local fame as a Cretan established. Venizelos moved...
With the war-scare headlines simmering down to more announcements of mild notes of protest by England to Germany and similar action in the offing by France and Italy, world citizenry can once more relax and review the situation calmly over the breakfast coffee. Hitler, with his usual flair for the dramatic, has timed the action to the minute and left the other countries gasping for wind...
Leon Kroll, who took the $1,000 Altman prize for landscapes. His canvas entitled Cape Ann was an excellent picture of three young people in bathing trunks, sweaters, bathrobes, done with all the artist's flair for the human figure...
...Carnegie Hall were sold. During the day Yehudi received 150 telegrams and a new projector for his cinema camera. In the evening he played Mozart with rare grace and delicacy. His Bach, without accompaniment, was exuberant and sure. A new sonata by Rumanian Georges Enesco had a true gypsy flair. Said Critic William J. Henderson in the New York Sun: "He plays not like a boy but like a man. . . . One can unhesitatingly say that he is already one of the violinists whose names will remain on the pages of the history...