Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prince and plumber alike, most colorful player the game ever developed, winner of 35 major championships (including two U. S. Opens, four British Opens and five P. G. A. titles) in the past 25 years, Golfer Hagen has earned over $1,000,000 and spent it with the flourish of an Indian potentate...
...Mountains of the Moon, which had been climbed successfully only twice since Stanley discovered them in 1888. One of the eeriest regions known to man, the upper slopes of Ruwenzori "comprise a world of their own-a weird country of moss, bog, rotting vegetation, and mud, on which flourish grotesque plants that seem to have survived from a past era . . . and make more desirable the fresh purity of the snows which lie beyond." In the mists of Ruwenzori, Mountaineer Tilman admits that he and his companion, Eric Shipton, lost their way, their tempers, and almost their lives-in addition...
...Federation. This had comprised the States of (from north to south) Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. El Salvador, the smallest, most densely populated of the Central American countries, has 80% of her soil under cultivation, is a one-crop country (coffee). In its capital, San Salvador, flourish 100,000 and the President, His Excellency General Maximiliano Hernández Martinez...
...abound in the theatrical world and flourish on the baseball diamond. F. Scott Fitzgerald explained that Lardner's silence and confusion resulted from the presence of "ivory" in the circles he _knew: "Remember it was not humble ivory," Fitzgerald wrote, "it was arrogant, imperative, often megalomaniacal ivory.' Since Lardner's death nobody has carried on his work as laureate of this thick-skulled world; nobody has caught the tones of its odd, original speech, or the flavor of its half-ironic, half-fatuous humor. But with a collection of brief sketches published last month, a young Manhattan...
...Italy admits to having 40,000 volunteers in Spain, competent neutrals estimate not over 80,000, but on escaping to France last week in a fishing smack, famed Leftist Belarmino Tomás announced with a fine Spanish flourish, "110,000 Italian troops were responsible for Franco's capture of Gijón and northwest Spain...