Word: flaunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Satguru Partap is so set against pomp that in his sect a couple is excommunicated if a dowry is discovered. In 1911 he sponsored legislation sanctioning group marriage for Indians of all sects. It is still on the books, to be relied on by any Indian who dares to flaunt social pressure and stop spending...
While economists agree that the fear of inflation is outdistancing reality, they manfully take part of the blame themselves. Says a top Government economist: "Some of us may have warned a bit too well. You can't flaunt a specter as vigorously as this one has been flaunted without scaring some people. I'm afraid a lot of our problem of inflationary psychology has been of the Government's own making." Even the Federal Reserve Bank, which waved the warning flag hardest, is having some second thoughts. Says a Fed spokesman: "As you look at the economy...
Ranging through all times and cultures for their humor, erudite Clowns Wayne and Shuster neither flaunt their learning nor talk down to their audience. Says Wayne: "There is an undercurrent of fairly competent acting in what we do. But we mostly look like a couple of accountants who can't get the same balance...
...Gibson girl, created by Artist Charles Dana Gibson, was the modest and aloof dream girl of U.S. males in the early years of the century. It was not until World War I that makeup crawled back to respectability, and not until the Roaring Twenties that it dared to flaunt its painted face-under a permanent wave, invented in Switzerland by Charles Nessler. This wonderful electric gadget brought hope that every head could be curly-though many a hair curled at the early cost: $200. (In 1938 San Francisco's Willat company introduced the cold wave, which gradually made...
...vicious knee uppercut that comes close to decapitating downed adversaries. Diamond's most amazing talent is his ability to keep his fedora on, no matter how violent the battle. His worst quality seems to be his flagrant affection for fat fees -a penchant that his fellow sleuths seldom flaunt so openly...