Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a quick smile, a fine Irish tenor and a flair for charitable fund raising, Denis W. Delaney traveled a long way. From a job as pick & shovel laborer in the Lawrence, Mass, sewer department, he rose to be Boston's Collector of Internal Revenue, and in the Roman Catholic Church he rose to be a Knight of Malta...
...small boy to live with him. For eleven years, however, Leonardo was not much more than another mouth at the notary's table. At 16, he was shipped to Florence and put to the painter's trade with Maestro (Andrea del Verrocchio because he had shown some flair for the palette...
...Some 18 months ago, Fleur, accompanied by her husband, Publisher Gardner (Look, Quick) Cowles, paid a 5½-day visit to Argentina, during which she met Evita. Fascinated, Fleur came home and wrote a book, her first. Published this week in Manhattan,* the book shows Fleur's flair for the feminine glance, supplemented, as she says,"by my own sharpened intuition...
...first concerts showed a mature wit, a flair for character dancing, and a feel for American material (forty-niners, chorines, Civil War vaudevillians). The critics clapped, but the going was hard. For the next half-dozen years, Agnes lived on a small allowance from her father, eked out with an occasional bond from her mother's badly depressed stack of securities. "Good heavens, baby," gasped Uncle Cecil in the innocence of his millions, "are you in this for your health...
Harris J. Isbrantsen, the ship's owner, made no such statement and probably told Carlsen that he should stick by the ship, Albion said. He termed this an example of the shipper's "flair for the spectacular...