Word: flaunting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poland, whose Primate, Augustus Cardinal Hlond, arrived at the Vatican during the week. The Pope was profoundly apprehensive of the future of eastern Poland, occupied by godless Russians. But, said a Vatican voice, "even if the Pope fasted and performed self-mortification, he would not be the man to flaunt it in public. One should keep in mind his habitual disposition to piety and mortification. . . . But beyond that, it is not permitted to go without falling into a play of the imagination that may become indiscreet...
...Flemings constitute half Belgium's population. Increasingly conscious of their numbers, they have demanded-and got-more political power. As fast as possible they have been pulling the nation away from its French moorings. During the World War many Flemish districts were pro-German. Now many Flemings flaunt a desire to join up with The Netherlands...
...longer can the "Social Justice" masthead proudly flaunt the caption "by permission of his Ecclesiastical Superior"; no longer will it be possible for thinking people to construe criticism of Father Coughlin as criticism of the Catholic Church. Those who persist in contributing to the Social Justice Publishing Company, which in turn pays for the Father's weekly broadcasts, should realize that their money is financing not a religious but a political campaign...
Such heraldic paradox is not entirely banished from the campus of Uncle Elihu, however, as the arms of John Harvard's rival institution still flaunt themselves boldly in Saybrook Court, where they are embossed in more permanent stone.... --The Yale Daily News...
...example of Italy's annexation of Ethiopia, a barren acquisition admittedly made to unify the Italian people and provide an outlet for rest lessness in the fighting forces, Wild said that the cry for colonies is only a cloak for Fascism's internal need for an enemy to flaunt before the people...