Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party. Because of these difficulties, it would be futile to try to inaugurate similar groups in every House. On the other hand, the Forum has a real function other than those of an Economic Society or of the Liberal Club, and in other years such groups might well flourish in several Houses...
...member of the Imperial Family, exalted and unassailable, Alexander in his youth went first to a particularly expensive U. S. daughter of joy in Hongkong. Later he "went native" in Japan, an incident which he relates with a flourish en passan, not forgetting to add that "elder [Japanese] persons" often stopped him in the street to inquire whether his "wife" was giving satisfaction. He says that His Majesty the Empress of Japan and His Majesty the Emperor, "Son of Heaven bestowed their mirthful benediction at Court Banquet upon his sowing of wild oats. They laughed, shrieked...
...With a flourish worthy of Scipio Africanus, Pietro Badoglio, Marshal of Italy and Governor of the colonies of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica (now known as Italian Libya), reported to II Duce last week that 20 years of warfare were at an end. "Completely and definitely" had the rebellion there been quashed and once more peace reigned in Libya...
...General Ma, stirring his tea. "We have lost more than 400 killed and 300 wounded since Nov. 5 and now the Japanese have handed an ultimatum to me. I know we are not strong enough to fight. But we must hold our own," cried Hero Ma with a fine flourish, "until Death...
...question at Mr. Gandhi soon after he was introduced : "Why do you champion such a crude device as the hand spinning wheel? Inventions are the inheritance of mankind and should be .allowed to relieve the burdens of mankind. I am diametrically opposed," wound up Cinemactor Chaplin with a Churchillian flourish, "to the abolition of machinery!" "The hand wheel and the hand loom," answered Spinner Gandhi, "are necessary to provide occupation for India's millions. Modern machinery installed in India would