Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also has a considerable flair for French cooking, which he bolstered this winter by a six-week course in cuisine given by Dione Lucas, of "Cordon Bleu" fame. In the field of dogs, he is known for his extraordinary poodle-clipping talent...
Charles Osborne contributed two stories. The first, called "The Egg Thing," is dry and dull but the second, a fairy tale about an atom bomb that "Felt things," is well handled. Osborne's humor is subtle and he has a flair for satire...
...under Fernand Léger and Marcel Gromaire in Paris. Back in the U.S. he did both realistic landscapes and abstract murals for the WPA, exhibited fool-the-eye still lifes at the Museum of Modern Art and sold an abstraction to the Whitney Museum before he discovered his flair for commercial work...
...first sentence, Mr. Kemler sees Mencken as a "Rabelais, Swift, or Shaw--who has somehow abused his gifts." Mr. Kemler fails to make his case for this comparison. His book is a humdrum piece of writing, devoid of wit and the dramatic flair necessary for a biography...
Fortnight ago, when he finally made his first public appearance at a one-night stand in Wrentham, Mass., the Flanagan flair seemed to be just as effective at close range. Last week, when Flanagan & orchestra opened at New Jersey's famed Meadowbrook, the roadhouse had its biggest crowd in four years...