Word: flair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These were some of the 20,000 complaints which have poured in upon Louisiana's curly-haired Senator Allen Joseph Ellender, henchman of the late Huey Long and his successor in Washington. Allen Ellender lacks the Kingfish's political potency and likewise his flair for publicity. But last year he struck a workable vein of publicity when he agitated for a special Senate committee to investigate injustices in Civil Service promotions. He got his committee and $2,500 to finance it. Last week his hearings made headlines in capital dailies. His theme: Why pretty girls get ahead...
...Jerger has a taste for Scotch & soda, a flair for anecdote, a willingness to think for himself. He once wrote to the hard-boiled sage of Baltimore, H. L. Mencken, suggesting that condemned criminals be given their choice of execution or submitting themselves as subjects for medical research. Mencken advised him that U. S. sentimentality would never stand for such a procedure...
...central problem of the papal election was to select a pope who was, above all else, a statesman. Pacelli was the obvious choice. His natural flair for diplomacy, coupled with the vast amount of training in practical politics that a cardinal must undergo, made him the best choice for the papacy at this particular hour. Besides holding the titular Archbishopric of Sardis, he was Papal Regent, as well as Secretary of State to the Holy See. In the last capacity especially he had served his church well...
...Francisco's Museum of Art, 15 paintings went on show last week celebrating the eccentric, Slavic, bucolic conceits of Marc Chagall, a 51-year-old Russian with a flair for flowery dreams. Typical: Inspiration, showing a youth playing a fiddle with one hand while kneeling on the back of a deer. This is no mean stunt, and as a reward a Christmasy angel is presenting him with a bouquet. Behind is calm blue water with a calm blue couple in a rowboat...
...front again after being dismounted for two months. A barrel-chested pee-wee (4 ft. 8 in.) who learned to ride on the Western "bush"' tracks (county fairs), still lives in a trailer and looks as clumsy as Ichabod Crane on a horse. Johnny Adams has an extraordinary flair for getting the best out of the cheapest plater...