Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forester William Buckhout Greeley combed the National Forests, climbed mountains, counting big game animals for the Department of Agriculture. Assistant Forester Will C. Barnes, for Secretary Jardine, last week announced the results of the census. C. Young antelopes can be raised on the bottle and old antelopes, fence-fearing, flourish on the open ranges. The U. S. now has 7,665 of these animals, of which 2,157 are in Arizona, only two in South Dakota...
...citizens were snapping up in best selling quantities a book called The Road to Buenos Ayres.* The snappers neither knew nor cared about Argentina's President-Elect; but they eagerly scanned the new best seller because it tells how exceedingly women of the class called "White Slaves" flourish in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina...
...quest of adventure, two blithe British women took off last week. One, Lady Mary Bailey, with a mad flourish of acrobatics, hopped across Europe on her lonesome way to Cape Town, Africa. The other, the Hon. Elsie Mackay, madcap daughter of James Lyle Mackay, Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver, muffled herself almost beyond recognition and stealthily departed with one-eyed Capt. Walter G. R. Hinch-liffe on the treacherous flight across the Atlantic, Westward...
...After they had been up a while, the instructor unhooked his control stick, showed it to the student, and threw it overboard with a great flourish and a malicious grin...
...tone of courteous, dignified, lucid and friendly conversation. He does so in the Broadway Tabernacle, Manhattan, a church situated on the boundary of that bright, dangerous region in which ignorant and reckless ladies derive a huge profit from services best left undescribed, in which thieves and theatre managers flourish...