Word: flatteringly
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...impressionistic vein with broad brush strokes, small attention to detail? bold, striking character studies. In her husband's picture which hung above the fireplace she had caught his quizzical domineering expression, the important frown he wears when "things in Washing- ton are going badly." She had not attempted to flatter Actress Katharine Cornell, wide of mouth, heavy of eyelid. There were two nudes because, Mrs. Mc-Cormick explained, "you can't have an exhibition without nudes." Amusing was what the artist called her "American Primitive"?a group, done from an old photo- graph and much resembling a colored tintype...
...power equal to those of the ruling white caste. Oldtime white residents claim that they could hold the native in his place if it were not for tourists from the mainland. These visitors, it is said, arrive with sentimental notions about a non-existent people and then proceed to flatter and hobnob with the half-castes in the mistaken idea that they are full-blooded Hawaiians. This outside attention, oldtimers claim, turns the head of the half-caste, makes him arrogant, unruly, lustful...
When an English girl begins really to like a man from "the States," or when an English dowager designs to flatter one. she usually says: "You know, you don't really seem a bit like an American...
...More important, Citizen Calvin Coolidge showed off in return. From the moment California's Governor Clement Calhoun Young and Los Angeles' Mayor John Clinton Porter met him at the bedraped station until his departure for Santa Barbara to visit Mark Requa, he received enough acclaim, applause, and attention to flatter a President, to say nothing of a king...
...which he must spend wisely on the upkeep of 14 schools and departments, in addition to whatever appropriations he will be able to coax from purse-wary politicians to finance further pedagogical projects. There will be a faculty of some 1,400 teachers and research ers' to bully, cajole, flatter. Greatest trust of all will be a student body, 14,000 strong, which lives in 124 fraternity and dormitory houses, goes to watch "Big Ten" football games in a $2,000,000 cement basin which seats 70,000, and gave Footballer Harold ("Red") Grange to the world...