Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked about the future of women in publishing, Fleur Cowles, purring dynamo of Flair and other Cowles publications (Look, Quick), was hopeful: "It's the brightest, most glorious future one can imagine. But why ask me? Look at the other women whose literary lights have guided them into editorships. At this time, maybe, just maybe, mine was shining just a little brighter...
...made his work look easy, which it was not, and fun to do, which it apparently was. Though he vastly simplified what he saw, none of Luks's pictures could be called art-for-art's-sake; he was a reporter in oils with a dramatic flair like that of his contemporaries John Sloan and George Bellows, and like them he regularly suppressed irrelevant details for the sake of a few telling ones...
Withal the mayor had a flair for endearing himself to the voters. He signed all his letters and documents in green ink in inch-high letters, conscientiously dispatched special greetings on green-or canary-colored stationery to new mothers, new brides and new residents, mailed thousands of "wish you were here" postcards to Dearbornites from his vacations (although his mother complained recently that Orville hadn't written to her in more than a year). The voters liked the show well enough to give Orville five terms- something they had never done for any previous mayor...
Shotgun v. Pistol. Walton Walker is not a colorful prima donna, or an affable diplomat, or a profound strategist, or an egoist with a flair for drama. Military historians will probably not quarrel lengthily over his capabilities; psychologists will not find him an enigma. In World War II he fought as Patton wanted him to; in Korea, he will fight as MacArthur wants him to-however much retreats and holding actions may go against his grain. If ordered to hold, he will stand and fight to the last man, including Walton Walker. He is, in every sense of the phrase...
...Vogue reader still experienced a twinge of boredom, Vogue implied, she was nothing but a low type who was better off playing with the cut-outs in Flair...