Word: flaunting
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...Comrade Zinoviev organized opposition to Comrade Stalin's policies within the Party (TIME. Oct. 24, 1932). Twice has Stalin permitted him abjectly to repent and eat crow. Last week he was turning obscurely as a minor cog in the Party bureaucracy when abruptly the Dictator chose to flaunt again and pillory the name ZINOVIEV...
Because U. S. banks are awash with funds to lend, many a U. S. oil company has lately found it advantageous to flaunt one of the oldest rules of corporate finance. The rule: retire bank loans as soon as possible by floating bond issues. The purpose: to substitute long term debt for short term debt. Instead, major oil companies have been borrowing from banks to retire long term bonds...
...Boston, serves as it is with manufactures who presume to flaunt sin before the faces of respectable people, maintains a solidly sensible position, the position at the Gay Nineties, that incredible age which refused to recognize the existence of a lady's by on the main through fare, but which maintained a segregated district running full blast in a back alley . While the City Censor, in his wisdom, refuses to allow the slightest bit of lascivious titillation from the stages of the uptown theatres, the citizen with an incurably low-down taste may still pander to his lower instincts...
...known as the centre of learning and science; the gateway to all continents; the centre of the greatest highway, railway and water developments in the world; and that the reign of vice and crime is a thing of the past! Let no one try to flaunt the warning I have given...
This rather raw exhibition impels me to say to you that it is beyond comprehension in these times, in this stage of human instability, that you should display so little tact, to say the least, as to flaunt your anti-semitic tendencies before the eyes of your readers...