Word: flair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resulting in kidney complications and congestion of the lungs; on a ranch near San Jose, Calif. Born in San Francisco, he gained fame and friends by organizing relief work after the 1906 earthquake and fire, became Mayor in 1911, served until elected Governor 20 years later. With a political flair similar to that of his friend "Jimmy" Walker, onetime Mayor of New York, he gave lavish parties for visiting notables, made appropriate speeches at prize fights. He always wore high-heeled polished boots (he bought his first pair of shoes last year for $13.87). His administration was nationally criticized...
...nobbily dressed bachelor with a flair for plaid suits, Glenn Martin lives in Washington with his mother. He also has living quarters at the plant 45 mi. away where he often stays days at a time. From his company he receives a modest salary of $16,200 per year...
...gives-boating excursions up the Hudson to poor women & children. He even ventured far enough into politics to hold down a desk in New York City's Fusion campaign headquarters when John Purroy Mitchel successfully ran for mayor in 1913. But he soon discovered that he had no flair for politics. He married Helen Dinsmore Huntington-a member of another county family-and settled down to his real estate business...
...Shogun Takauji Ashikaga, though he promulgated an admirable list of moral precepts, the Ashikaga Law Code, Japanese text books and histories still reserve the place of ''blackest traitor in the history of the Empire." In 1924 Baron Kumakichi Nakajima, potent ironmonger and merchant with a scholarly flair, attempted to whitewash Traitor Takauji in a magazine article, praising him as a vanquisher of despots and a lawgiver and concluded by renaming him Japan's Oliver Cromwell. Few took notice of Ironmonger Nakajima's article. Last week Baron Nakajima, now Minister of Commerce and Industry, woke one morning...
...evidence points to the fact that it is as natural for some people to be decent as for others to be indecent. I is essentially a matter of taste. They become Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts because they like that sort of wholesome thing. They grow up with a flair for clean living and a respect for pure motherhood, for the same reason. In their business dealings they are straight shooters. They look you fair in the eye. Honestly, they are made, or have made themselves that way, just as Nemo is made, or has made himself the other...