Word: flair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while building the Brooklyn Bridge, and was an invalid for upwards of 50 years. In the last 18 years of his life he had the companionship of a most devoted wife (his second). I knew him rather well and never heard that he "ate upside down." He had a flair for writing about the family, much of what he had to say being incorporated in a book on the Roeblings published two years ago by the University Press of Princeton, Hamilton Schuyler, author. His brother, Ferdinand, was never president of the Roebling Co., but treasurer, and was the smartest...
Writer Paul Morand wrote the film version of Don Quixote, Composer Maurice Ravel the music. The producers are hoping that again, as with Bolero, Ravel has exercised his flair for writing music which will please all kinds of people. To pay its way the film will need music more captivating than Massenet's flaccid operatic score. Chaliapin has been given two supporting casts, one English (Nelson Film, producers), one French (Nelson and Vandor, producers). He is said to be asking $200,000 as his share of the returns. Because he asked $4,000 a concert. Chaliapin's last...
...family at present are Col. George Studebaker, son of Founder Clement Studebaker, and his brother Clement. Neither is connected with the company. Wealthy Col. Studebaker founded South Bend Watch Co., Studebaker Mail Order Co. (watches) and has been "angel" to Colin B. Kennedy Corp. (radio). His brother showed a flair for utilities, is president of North American Light & Power Co. (Insull sub-sidiary?See below...
...hero, he resolved to turn villain. The brilliance of his strategy is plain in this picture, which he wrote himself, sold for $1. The story is laid in a castle outside Vienna, seen from the perspective of the servants' hall. Gilbert is a new chauffeur with a monkey's flair for mischief. Plausible, playful, roving-eyed, he spreads ruin and rage around...
...Size 8 hat, Size 12 shoe. He likes caviar at least once a day, has a fondness for oysters, small pickled onions and other things he knows are not good for him. He is frank and forward, likes to work as hard as he lives. His ebullience and flair for speechmaking have made more than one tycoon call him "Canada's Charlie Schwab." It would be as hard to believe that he had not taken all he could get out of a job as it would be to believe he did not throw himself into it with his full force...