Word: flourishings
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Langlie, no flaming orator, had an oratorical flourish or two to rival a Clement. The Democrats, he said, have a heritage of "colossal mismanagement and corruption . . . For 20 years [they] subsisted only from one crisis to another−some real, some imaginary, some fabricated...
...gang war, seems to have been made by a sadly inferior second team. Jean Servais is coolly efficient as the criminal mastermind, and Carl Mohner and Robert Manuel play his talented assistants. Director Writer Dassin is on screen, too, as an imported Italian safecracker who brings a Latin flourish to his work. Perhaps Dassin spread himself too thin in the picture, but he gathers enough honors in his memorable silent sequence to satisfy most writers, directors and actors for a lifetime of work...
...longer dance to it-and jazz headed farther out. Rock 'n' roll got its name, as it got some of its lyrics, from Negro popular music, which used "rock" and "roll" as sexy euphemisms. It caught on with the small record companies, e.g., Dot, King, Sun, that flourish in the Southern, Central and Western states, and soon it grew too big for the majors to ignore. Strangely enough, a group of nonmusicians became the objects of teen-age adulation-the rock-'n'-roll disk jockeys such as Manhattan's Alan Freed, Boston's Bill...
...last minute EIBL victory flourish served only to bolster Harvard's prestige, as its final 5-4 league record barely qualified for fifth place in the ten-team league. Meanwhile, at Princeton, the Tigers tied Yale for first place by downing Cornell to finish with a 7-2 record...
...Tambi kept it alive by coaxing the publishing firm of Nicholson & Watson Ltd. into taking a planned loss of ?6,000 a year (roughly $24,000) as a "prestige gesture." With Poetry London and the ?6,000, Tambi played his role of sub-patron of the arts with a flourish, built PL's circulation to 10,000, made it a proving ground for Britain's promising younger poets. But a managerial rift brought the magazine to its death...