Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wound up with a flourish in Washington last week was the 16th International Geological Congress: an eight-day series of conferences which was only one phase of an elaborate, expensive scientific party attended by 500 geologists from 25 nations. Nominally their host was the U. S. Geological Survey. Actually their host was a fellow geologist-far richer than the general run of scientists and dead two years...
...month in office. Assistant Secretary of State Payer made news last week with a fervent speech at Washington's University Club. With many an oratorical flourish he discussed the New Deal, laid down its "Ten Commandments." Excerpts...
...kept Minneapolis from seeing Crazy Quilt, Fanny Brice's raw revue. He had vetoed the city's beer ordinance, sent citizens to St. Paul for Sunday drinks. Many a Minneapolitan, weary of reform, turned hopefully to "Buzz" Bainbridge and he did not disappoint them. With a theatrical flourish the Mayor-elect declared...
...President Roosevelt had some one else picked for Italy. Mayor Curley went back to Boston, took to his bed with a cold. The President last week announced his appointment as Ambassador to Poland. Two days later Mayor Curley leaped out of bed, sped to Washington and with a rhetorical flourish that sounded almost sarcastic told the President he was "eternally grateful" for the offer of the Warsaw post but he would have to decline it. His reason: "The clear call of duty . . . that I remain in America [and Boston] . . . cannot be disregarded...
...Chang took off from Peiping in his luxurious trimotored plane for the safety of the Shanghai International Settlement. From there he proposed to sail at once for Europe-oblivious to the fate of 150,000 Chinese soldiers whom he left stranded in Jehol and the Peiping area. The official flourish of abdication (for it amounted to that) was made in high Chinese style by the Young Marshal, thus...