Word: flirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparent reasonableness of the General Motors officials at the beginning of the strike won for them sympathy throughout the country. Their subsequent behaviour has done much to dissolve this, Sir Galahad cannot flirt with such a prostitute as the Flint Alliance without losing some of his purity. Mr. Sloan has proven his own worst enemy. If, as now seems probable, he is forced by President Roosevelt or Congress to sit down at the conference table he will find his position badly undermined by an arrogance which has no place in modern industrial relations...
...caught the limelight. ... I know Mary Astor well. My husband met her just about this time a year ago. I was in Honolulu and he was working in Hollywood. They had a flirtation. ... I cannot see any terrible harm in that. Is it unusual for a husband to flirt with an actress? We have been married 20 years. We are adults, leading our own lives in adult fashion...
...compare national customs, "the American English they are nauty the Scotch very nauty but the French are really bad the worst at Nice I didnt want to believe my eyes." Yet she was never really shocked by the nautiness of man: "I like to stay long enough to flirt in each country to test the man of each place is what I like during . . . but I am auful foxie." What adventures Juanita tells about were mostly connected with men. Sometimes she outran them. Sometimes she had to hand them a good crack on the jaw. Sometimes they hit her back...
...World War were not lesson enough, events of the last ten years should be adequate to show France on which side her bread is buttered. To flirt promiscuously with a Fascistic government may be a temporary expedient, but it certainly can never be a love match. Even if John Bull does not offer much, democratic Marianne should realize that for the rest of her life her head belongs on the same pillows as that of her present unromantic suitor from across the channel...
...months ago Benito Mussolini seemed so deeply committed to the big military job of maintaining Austria's independence against Germany that, on that issue and certain others vital to Adolf Hitler, suave British diplomatists could flirt politely with Berlin's Nazis, leaving Italy to bear the brunt of German wrath. By last week Il Duce had all Europe guessing whether he and Der Führer may not soon get together in a deal as to Austria's future, and in London the welkin rang with reverberations of anti-British editorials splashed out in Rome...