Word: flaunts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houston will never regret it. Come what may, the convention will be something for Houstonians to flaunt in their three-cornered rivalry with other Texas metropolitans?the bustling oil-&-cotton men of upland Dallas and the drawling men of San Antonio...
...girl. Nevertheless even the urbanite is not bereft of all native cunning. The CRIMSON makes no promises and, toward off possible future recriminations, it has no regrets. But in the chill October twilight, then, and then only, may the woodsman, fortified with a compass and flint for igniting fires, flaunt his rural and evergreen prowess...
...with the flourishing of commercial trumpets and hymns from the Park Square realtors, there was prevalent a feeling that at last Boston had been recognized and that it no longer need bow its head in shame at the mention of hostelries. Now its pomp has increased, for it may flaunt a Ritz-Carlton in the fact of those who doubt its metropolitan savoir-faire...
...play is an adaptation by Gilbert Seldes '14 of "The Love of the Three Oranges", an early eighteenth century Italian comedy by Carlo Gozzi. All the fantastic characters of the old Comedie del Arte, of which this play is a fine type, flaunt their explosive fun throughout the action of the play. Mr. Seldes has carefully revised Gozzi's original, and has made of the fairy tale that was its fabric, an amusing travesty on modern life and customs...
Last week M. Leon Blum and his handful of Unified Socialist Deputies continued to flaunt their banner with the strange device "OBSTRUCTION!" M. Blum commands less than one-sixth of the votes in the Chamber; his cohorts represent less than one-tenth of the electorate of France. Yet it happens that, by supporting or refusing to support the bloc of Radicals and Radical-Socialists headed by M. Herriot, M. Blum has been able to obstruct and coerce the Cartel des Gauches,*upon which all the recent governments of France have been forced to rely for a majority...