Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scholarly Dr. Bruno Pontecorvo, 37, was well-liked by his fellow nuclear physicists at Britain's Harwell atomic research plant. The Italian-born Briton was jolly and fun-loving, a good dancer, an enthusiastic tennis player. His pretty Swedish wife Helena Marianne was just as gay, had a flair for flamboyant clothes, including red slacks...
...Brattle production is perfect. As Mr. Posket, Arthur Treacher give a very funny performance, demonstrating his flair for pantomime. Wilson Hall looks a very gay blade in an Eton jacket, as the 19- year-old 14-year-old; and Paul Ballantyne and Peter Temple make an excellent pair as Colonel Lukyn and Captain Vale. Sylvia Stone only slightly over-plays the more difficult role of Mrs. Posket only a bit too broadly...
When he unbends, he tells funny stories drawn from his military experiences; he has a good sense of humor and a flair for mimicry. He gave up tobacco 25 years ago. He has a celebrated partiality for an old-fashioned before dinner. On a recent occasion, when a host served only sherry, Almond frowned, then cracked: "Well, I guess I'll have to have an old-fashioned sherry." He loves baked Virginia ham. The story goes that a soldier some years ago lost a Virginia ham that he was supposed to deliver to the general. In a panic...
...love is a steady thread through this tapestry of change. It is for a confidence man, named Bonser, a loud and promiscuous swindler with a flair for spending money, a blackguard whose interest in Tabitha lies squarely in her pocketbook. He seduces Tabitha and fails to marry her, yet he appears again and again through her marriage and divorce to bounce her on his knee and ask for a pound or two. She gives him the money and more than that, for Bonser is Tabitha's personal revolt, and her only consistent pleasure...
After hours of secret debate, they thought they had found just the man. He was Daniel I. J. Thornton, a colorful and energetic cattle raiser and state senator with some of the looks of Bing Crosby and some of his showman's flair. The choice was enough to perk up the despondent Republicans. It seemed at least to even the delicate balance between conservative Gene Millikin, the Senate's firm right bower to Ohio's Bob Taft, and Fair Dealing Congressman John Carroll, the Democrats' choice to unseat...