Word: penchants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drew. Also he sold insurance. Friends, seeing that he was too lazy to be a pianist, begged him to take up art. He was encouraged by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Puvis de Chav annes. He borrowed from Japanese art its use of the single line and its penchant for ornamental perversions. He dressed neatly in an ordinary fashion. He read everything. He learned quickly and forgot quickly. His black and white drawings were better than any Englishman's have ever been. He was the rage...
...Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary: "My penchant for a haughty monocle having been internationally remarked, I was welcomed to. Glasgow University last week by 5,000 students all be-monocled. Undismayed, I only 'screwed' my monocle the tighter into its eye socket, and was installed, amid acclaim as Lord Rector of Glasgow University. I am said to be one of the few Englishmen who can perform the 'impossible' feat of tossing my monocle into the air with thumb and finger and catching it again with my right eye socket...
Since then the Prince has grown strapping, attended Eton, developed a taste for hunting, a penchant for cultivating scientifically vegetables, chickens, bees...
...Schacht, though accounted sage in German and Allied financial circles, has something of a penchant for starting ill considered libel suits. His most famous action of this sort was to bring suit for libel against a German music publisher who had attached jazz music to a callow poem indisputably written by Herr Schacht in his youth and sold by him at that time for a pittance to a German magazine from whom it was purchased by the music publisher...
...prices a month ago, (TIME, June 28) no one of his executives could be induced to admit the obvious facts-that his sales had fallen off, that production schedules were curtailed, that sales must be induced by the lowered rates. Last week Edward S. ("Playboy") Jordan, with his penchant for quips and his casual naming of noncompetitive motor car makers, remarked: "The barbers in Detroit hotels and the smoking room oracles are feeling sorry for Henry Ford. They think he is up against it. Strange how the crowd likes to hear that the rich man has to wiggle. Well, they...