Word: debonair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helped to foster such notables as James Joyce, Aldous Huxley. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Theodore Dreiser and Eugene O'Neill. They also became trademarks of the "lost generation" along with hot jazz, bobbed hair and the hip flask. Mencken lashed out at the "booboisie" with a bull whip; the debonair Nathan was content to use a swizzle stick. In the eyes of the proper-minded, the two iconoclasts were unholy terrors. A couplet of those days went...
...Christian view of Satan is no less fanciful. In Dante's Divine Comedy he is meticulously described as a giant with three heads (colored red, yellow and black respectively). In the hands of Milton and Goethe, he became successively a tragic hero and a debonair, reasonable-seeming man of the world. At 20th century masquerade parties and in subway headache ads, the Devil generally wears a red union suit and wields a large pitchfork...
...debate became acrimonious and mischievous. To hear the Bevanites tell it, it was the U.S., not Communist China, that menaced the peace. In the heat of the Laborite assault on Churchill's foreign policy, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was jolted out of his usual debonair mastery of the House, even lost his temper and apologized for it. Churchill maneuvered desperately to head off an end to the bipartisanship in foreign affairs which has lasted through World War II and six years of Labor government. Abruptly, the news from Sandringham House snuffed out the whole debate. One Laborite muttered...
...like Bob Hope there are two of him in the picture currently playing at the U.T. The first is Bob Hope the burlesque comedian, known to the trade as Peanuts White. The second is a suave, debonair, international man of mystery, Eric Augustine...
Packed Living. Colonel Maurice J. Fitzgerald, Koje's debonair commander, has a 7,000-man force, including a first-rate U.S. outfit and two smaller South Korean units. Though not otherwise boastful about camp conditions, U.S. officers take pride in the fact that guard brutality to prisoners is at a minimum: the trouble is prisoner to prisoner...