Word: flair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father's Son (First National). This is an unpretentious, appealing little picture based on a story by Booth Tarkington and vitalized by Tarkington's flair for writing about adolescents. It tells about a boy who lives in just such a frame house as millions of U. S. boys live in and who diverts himself like these other millions but who has a hard time because his pranks get on the nerves of his pompous father (Lewis Stone). The combat between father and son reaches a climax when the mother leaves home and sets up a separate establishment with...
...Start in life: prosecutor. Career: Son of a well-to-do farmer who moved into Canton to take a local Treasury job when William McKinley became President, he received a public school education, attended Ohio State University, studied law at Western Reserve University. With a natural flair for politics he got a job as assistant prosecutor of Stark County but gave it up after three years to practice privately. Ambitious, he ran for the House of Representatives when 32, was beaten; got himself elected two years later, re-elected in 1916 (though Woodrow Wilson carried his district...
...rolling stone thus returned evinced much flair as a publicist. Expeditions to strange places took his fancy. He developed a close contact with the New York Times and put G. P. Putnam's Sons into the business of publishing expeditions. Putnam books this autumn, for example, include Richard Evelyn Byrd's Little America, Scout Paul Siple's A Boy Scout With Byrd, volumes by Sea-Diver William Beebe, Artist-Explorer Rockwell Kent, Jungle-Tramper Mrs. Martin Johnson. Even Publisher Putnam's son has been publicized as an explorer (David Goes A-Voyaging by David Binney Putnam...
...Graf, will be a reality in September 1931. During his visit Dr. Eckener conferred with officials of Na tional City Bank, United Aircraft & Trans port Co., Union Carbide Co., Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., all associated in the new International Zeppelin Transport Corp. With a showman's flair for secrecy, he would reveal only that the U. S. terminal would be "somewhere between Washington and Baltimore." Newsmen soon discovered that his representatives had been scrutinizing an air field at flat Hybla Valley in Virginia, ten miles south of Washington...
Never before had a woman made so serious a bid for a Senate seat. For weeks Mrs. McCormick has stumped the state through storm and snow. An expert campaigner with an inherited flair for politics, she had built up an organization of workers in every one of Illinois' 102 counties. She asked for the women's vote, but she could truthfully say she did not want it simply because she was a woman. No professional feminist is Mark Hanna's daughter, but that rare thing among women, a truly professional politician...