Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife, his four eldest children. He follows Assistant Cosyns through the round manhole into the 7-ft. sphere. Cosyns immediately busies himself with his instruments, is not again seen by the crowd. But Professor Piccard thrusts his hairy head out the port, beckons to Mme Piccard. With a flourish he kisses her hand. He signals the ground-crew of 100 to cast off. Silently, easily the balloon rises. Professor Piccard laughs merrily, waves, cries: "Au revoir, Marianne! Au revoir, mes enfants! An 'voir!" He swings the port to, is gone. . . . Within the aluminum globule Professor Piccard was almost grudging...
...army band not to play. Governor McNeill teetered nervously on the threshold, but an imported British ensemble known as St. Hilda's Band saved the day. Shouldering their tubas, dragging the bass drum, they dashed across the field, blared "The Soldier's Song" with a flourish...
...pennant-waving co-ed is old Mother Oxford. In all things she behaves with dignity and decorum. Nevertheless Oxford, like any Alma Mater, needs the money of her sons. Last week if she was not actually waving her pennant, she was trying a tentative flourish. From Oxford's Chancellor, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, came a proposal to establish that most useful money-raising device, an Alumni Association. It is to be dignified with the name "Oxford Society." Promoted lately at a gathering of "representative" Oxford men, it gained notably the support of Old Oxonian Edward of Wales. Lord Grey...
...forgotten this phase of Felix Frankfurter's career was onetime Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller, who refused clemency to Sacco & Vanzetti. Rankled, he said last week: "With Ely pardoning murderers and Frankfurter, an open sympathizer with murderers, on the Supreme bench, I see no reason why murder should not flourish here in Massachusetts...
...most attractive feature of the proposed Harvard Inquiry is, of course, its promised policy of concentration. Other student groups are content to solve, with a flourish of a heedless and platitudinous pen, all the major problems in every field; and their results are capably mirrored in the adolescent omissions of the Republican Club platform drawn up last evening. The principle of thorough study of the year's most important problem is a long step in the right direction and should certainly be welcome in a society of men supposedly bent on securing a sound education and understanding of the world...