Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chiang asked the Committee to concentrate on postwar reconstruction, economic as well as political. It meant, the official press explained, that the war is a step on the road of the People's Revolution, that the Revolution is a new environment in which national reconstruction can flourish...
Fortnight ago, in his first start as a five-year-old Whirlaway showed none of his old flourish. Last week, in the Equipoise Mile at Washington Park, he finished out of the money for the first time since he was a temperamental two-year-old. Next day Owner Warren Wright announced Whirlaway's retirement to stud. "After all," commented Trainer Ben Jones, "it would be little short of inhumane to continue training such a great horse and run the chance of permanently maiming...
...drive. From this chariot there stepped swiftly and lightly none other than the gifted wife of Sir John Lavery. 'Painting! But what are you hesitating about? Let me have a brush-the big one.' Splash into the turpentine, wallop into the blue and the white, frantic flourish on the palette . . . and then several large, fierce strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely cowering canvas. Anyone could see that it could not hit back. . . . The sickly inhibitions rolled away. I seized the largest brush and fell upon my victim with Berserk fury. I have never felt...
Again he shifted tactics. He denounced WLB and the mine operators for the umpteenth time, announced, with an appropriate patriotic flourish, that his miners would be glad to work for the Government. But he did not keep his miners at work...
Established in Reno for the stated purpose of divorcing the former Marguerite Lawler Branyen of Minneapolis is a "Mr. Holkar," who married her four years ago with a high-flown flourish: "Without mental peace I cannot properly discharge my duties as a ruler." Slim, sleek "Mr. Holkar" is His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shree Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur ("His Highness the Lord Paramount, King of Kings, one-quarter-better-than-anyone-else, beautiful King Shepherd, Brave Warrior"), fabulously wealthy Maharaja of Indore, 34, ruler of some 1,325,000 souls, possessor of the first air-conditioned palace in India...