Word: flair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world-famed D'Oyly Carte Opera Co.; in London. Son of the company's founder Richard (who brought and held together for 21 years the explosively hostile Gilbert & Sullivan collaboration, and made them the biggest money-making team in theatrical history), Rupert inherited his father's flair for show business and real estate, held controlling interests in London's Savoy, Berkeley and Claridge's hotels, the Savoy Theater, Simpson's Restaurant...
...creative writer; you have a journalistic flair; he is a prosperous hack. ¶ I am beautiful; you have quite good features; she isn't bad-looking, if you like that type...
...looking for pictures. But he never brought paper or pencil, because Daumier found it impossible to draw what he saw. Like a photographic film, his mind absorbed pictures, and at night he would develop those mental images in furious and funny lithographs composed with an actor's flair for gesture and a sculptor's knowledge of form...
Take My Life (Rank; Eagle-Lion). An opera singer's husband is accused of strangling a former mistress; his wife (sumptuous Greta Gynt) finds out whodunit. This English thriller in the Hitchcock tradition is no world-shaker, but it is done with intelligence and a flair for fright...
Despite conscientious attention to his job, McNiff has done graduate work in philosophy and political economy,--"but no more courses in library science, thank God." All the same he remains active in the American Library Club. As a versatile man with an air of competence and a flair for originality, he looks toward what is to be in Lamont. If the service in Widener has been unsatisfactory to students, it has been more so to Mr. McNiff. The eyes of Widener look to the snowy girders of Lamont,--"Ah, tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow...