Word: flaunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forever virgin and so goes right on flowering. Dr. Everett crossed two widely different varieties of petunia. One of the offspring was sterile; the flowers had proper female ovules but no fertile male pollen. By crossing and recrossing, Dr. Everett can now make most kinds of petunias sterile. They flaunt their flowers hopefully, inviting bees to visit them. The bees come as usual, but the flowers cannot dust them with fertilizing pollen. So the desperate virgin, to its own frustration and to the delight of flower lovers, blooms on unfulfilled until frost...
...save the susceptibilities of the delicate, I would like to suggest that the animal is a cow; certainly there are distinct traces of cow about it. It is well known that a cow is the most domestic and comfortable of animals. If it has any sex, it does not flaunt it. It might be said to maintain some sort of massive and conservative neutrality about the whole question...
Wells was finally received by British society, but neither then nor before did he try to deny his succession of mistresses. His wife Catherine, who died in 1927, had to learn to accept them. His intellectual friends considered him a Don Juan. Wells did not flaunt his women, but he never hesitated to be seen with them in public. One of them took care of him with complete devotion...