Word: coxcomb
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...Perelman like many another fledgling writer headed posthaste for Montparnasse. A redoubtable tosspot and coxcomb, he was celebrated throughout the Quarter for drinking Modigliani under the table; his fondness for this potent Italian apéritif still remains unabated. In 1925, disguised as Ashton-Wolfe of the Sûreté, he took to frequenting the milieu, the sinister district centering about the rue de Lappe. As 'Papa' Thernardier, he organized the gang that stole a towel from the Hotel Claridge and defaced the blotters at the American Express Co. A démarche from the Quai...
Rundstedt, the oldest, is also the best. Before the Nazis came to power, he was a stanch royalist, a faithful Hindenburg man. Now he is the Nazis' high priest of strategy. Belittlers of Chief of the High Command Wilhelm Keitel used to say that Keitel was such a coxcomb that he wouldn't even listen to Rundstedt. Rundstedt is easily the most experienced German commander. He alone of the present crop of generals was an Army Corps Chief of Staff in World War I. He will go down in German history as a hero because...
...Rico's national anthem, sung from early dawn to murmurous dusk by spur-legged game-birds tethered in squalid door-yards all over the island. On Sundays the national anthem is stilled. Those sacks you see the natives carrying along the white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned jibaro (peasant). Porto Rican poets hymn...
...Nonohay, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, natives and their families danced rustically last week; banteringly told one Lieut. Matias Cuardos, coxcomb, that he might not join their merrymaking. Enraged, Matias Cuardos ordered a squad of his soldiers to fire at the dancers. Eleven were killed, 27 wounded...
...sure sign of frivolity; he finally quotes the rather cynical advice "If you dance well, dance seldom; if you do not dance well, do not dance at all." Speaking of the vanities of animals the author says, "The lower we descend in animal life, the more of a coxcomb does the male become." He then gives a detailed and interesting account of our bird dancers, chief among which are the members of the goose family. 'Sport with Canada Geese" is very good. "Miss Caruther's Partner is interesting though not a novel or very clever story. The other articles...