Word: flair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoped that TIME'S "vocabulary-builders'' will be able to maintain their flair for vivid and witty epithets even during the summer's heat and humidity. Their characterization of members of the Civilization Conservation Corps, recruited from the unemployed, as "workers-in-the woods" (issue of June 19) is a bit flat...
Five feet three inches high, weighing nearly 125 lb., a man who dislikes tobacco, is indifferent to good clothes and almost as indifferent to statistics, he is a trader with a cold eye for a market profit. Totally lacking in the flush speculator's flair for spending but showing a magnificent willingness to take risks, he has been long and short on a big scale in most commodities, many stocks. He engages extensively in the very risky business of writing puts and calls. He made a fortune (reputedly $2,000,000) in the post-War boom, was cleaned...
...earth--?" asked his intimates. "I guess it's my sense of adventure," he replied. It is generally agreed he is a great loss to science. In research, his guesses at explanations and results were uncannily accurate. His students claimed, a bit resentfully, that he had an intuitive flair for chemistry, as some men have a flair for chemistry, as some men have a flair for music or verse. He worked here and there in half a dozen scattered fields, but any feeling that he was dilettantish in any is not justified by the sober worth of more than a hundred...
...Miguel Ratonocito. Last week he became Art. In Manhattan's Kennedy Galleries art critics piously eyed a collection of original Mickey Mouse cartoons from the Walt Disney Studios in Hollywood. Wrote one, "Genius . . . profoundest stuff . . . drama of the eternal ego." Another noted "the integrity of the draftsmanship, the flair for effective massing of spaces and the never failing rhythmic pattern of the drawings." From Manhattan the cartoons will go to leading U. S. colleges and museums for exhibition under the auspices of the College Art Association.† Mickey Mouse's popularity derives from the absolute freedom...
...brought on war. Hearst. getting himself commissioned an ensign, leaped pantless from his launch at the battle of Santiago, rounded up 26 dripping Spaniards on the beach, herded them at pistol's point into his chartered steamer and delivered them in person to Admiral Schley.* Nor was this flair for the theatrical a symptom of professional adolescence. In later years, a genius for adventure, he owned a cinema company, promoted aviation, practically leased the Graf Zeppelin for a world flight, and sent Sir Hubert Wilkins to Antarctica to discover Hearstland...