Word: debonair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first cousin and the seventh in line to Britain's throne. Wherever young Kent went-and his evenings were invariably full-the action was brisk. One party he attended was held on a yacht and ended only when sea scouts and river police turned up to fish two debonair young Guards officers out of the muddy waters of the Thames. Another reached its climax when some of the duke's young friends decided to scale a perilous parapet and sprinkle innocent passers-by in the street below with champagne...
Eugenio Reale, 50, is a debonair little Neapolitan of cultured tastes who has done time in Fascist jails, served in Parliament, and represented his country abroad (as ambassador to Warsaw). He is also a Communist...
...Nizam's son is a different matter. Black-eyed, balding and debonair, a married man whose wife lives far away in London, Prince Azam Jah passes his days playing polo, sticking pigs and studying the racing form, his evenings frolicking in a tiled swimming pool with the 50 ladies of his harem. *Having all these pleasures on a monthly allowance of $10,000 might well be a strain on others, but for Azam it was easy. He simply ran up bills. After all, he assured his bookies, he would one day be Nizam...
...young debonair who is stepping out for a summer's evening should check up on his checks. Check-mating the fashion scene is a wave of box-like designs. In checks with plaids, the flannel-finish jacket of extremely light weight, two-or three-button model, is being worn with slacks of tropical worsted, cut along very trim lines...
...clatter of applause rose last week in St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium Opera House as one of the city's most distinguished citizens appeared on the stage. Debonair, white-haired Vladimir Golschmann, 62, bowed; this Parisian son of Russian parents was obviously very much at home. Then he turned, and whisked his baton over the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. On the program: Pianist Lukas Foss, playing his own Concerto No. 2. Conductor Golschmann has led his orchestra for 25 years-longer than the tenure of any other U.S. conductor now working...