Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entered the first car, the President sitting on her right and Senator Curtis on her left. Mr. and Mrs. Dawes entered the second car. In single file, the cars rolled out of the grounds. Outside, buglers sounded a flourish. The escort of cavalry took up its position. As the cars emerged from the gate, a waiting crowd cheered. The President looked straight ahead. Two troops of cavalry led the procession. Then came the President's car, flanked by two cars containing secret service men, with a detective standing on the running board of each. Behind, followed three troops of cavalry...
...people revolted--we tried to stop them. What would you do if the negroes of your country should start an armed rebellion? Just what we did--suppress it. No massacre of the Armenians was ordered; there was no deliberate, systematic killing of Armenian Christians; the massacres that flourish in your papers are in reality battles where the Turks try to bring back a rebellious part of the people...
...match. It was Mr. Rockefeller's first game of the season.* His opponent, he knew, was a dangerous player. He manned himself for his task, halved the first hole, won the next. So the match seesawed. Mr. Baker hit the hardest; sometimes, indeed, the natural recoil of his flourish forced him to stagger back a step or two. Mr. Rockefeller was warier; he never waggled, but bent for a moment over his club in the attitude of one who offers prayer, then struck. As they approached the eighth hole, the wearer of the cotton gloves...
Then, with an airy flourish of his right hand: "I have this to say in conclusion: Only revolution can save France...
...flourish, a bow, and the hat is swept on again. A cool survey of the arena, and the hero steps jauntily towards his victim. He arranges his muleta as he goes, balancing his sword ' above it with arch precision. Grace is everything. The watching thousands bate their breath to see such bravery in a mincing mayfly. He makes it seem the merest trifle to approach a snorting, bloody-eyed monster where it stands at bay, to halt six paces off and pose a second, waiting for the animal to come into position; to rise on tiptoe and make a dainty...