Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wagon, Flamenco), daughter of the first Earl of Birkenhead; of septic colitis; in London. Prouder of her Romany blood than of her title, she specialized in gypsy and circus stories, wrote her autobiography at eight, did it again at 35 (Life's a Circus) with many a gypsy flourish...
Brazil's President Getulio Dornelles Vargas had not lost his touch. Last week, with a flourish of his wily pen, he brightened the chances of Government-backed Candidate General Eurico Gaspar Dutra in the approaching (Dec. 2) presidential elections, rocked opposition candidate General Eduardo Gomes back on his heels and left the Government's uneasy Communist allies stunned. A presidential decree 1) advanced the date of state elections to coincide with the presidential elections, 2) required state governors to resign and stand for election if they want to succeed themselves...
...according to the minority, showed that the loan was made at a time when Congress was considering a chain-store tax that would cost A. & P. $6,625,000 annually. And it was settled by Jesse Jones at a time when the ailing Texas State Network was beginning to flourish, with signs that the stock might some day be worth the full $200,000. As it turned out, the radio chain is now a prosperous company, with Elliott's exwife, Texas-bred Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt Eidson, as its president. (She and their children got all of his stock...
...Literary Flourish...
Stephen's (i.e. Joyce's) frustrating experience with the girl Emma Clery, touched on rather abstractly in the Portrait, is set forth with adolescent flourish. Emma's "loud forced manners shocked him . . . until his mind had thoroughly mastered the stupidity of hers." But Stephen ached for her body. "I felt that I longed to hold you in my arms," said Stephen. "Just to live one night together, Emma, then to say goodbye in the morning and never to see each other again! There is no such thing as love in the world. . . ." "You are mad," said Emma...