Word: debonair
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...refugee Romanov princess, ended up as a prisoner of the Allies. The eldest son, Wilhelm, lost favor when he married a commoner. He was killed in Belgium in World War II. Air-minded Hubertus joined Hitler's Luftwaffe, rose to a captaincy, was at last reports still flying. Debonair Friedrich, the youngest son, was caught in London at the war's outbreak, interned in Canada, not to his regret...
Donald is flanked on his tour of the Good-Neighborhood by debonair...
Laura (20th Century-Fox), thanks to some slick direction by Otto Preminger and a cast out of the top drawer, is a highly polished and debonair whodunit with only one inelegant smudge on its gleaming surface. In swank settings that cry for a pinch of poison or at least a dainty derringer, the victim is obliged for purposes of plot to have her pretty face blown off by a double-barreled shotgun fired at close range...
William Christian Bullitt, debonair, billiard-bald, onetime U.S. Ambassador to France, joined the French Army in Algiers, after completing an assignment by LIFE to write articles on France and Italy. Bullitt said he would keep his U.S. citizenship, got from the French the rank of commandant (U.S.: major...
...quintessence of the pathos, dignity and ludicrousness which old age can display. Father O'Malley, still more dangerously, might have been one of those brisk, bland up-&-comers who have made an impure science of "not acting like a priest at all." Instead he is subtle, gay, debonair-a wise young priest whose arresting resemblance to Bing Crosby never obscures his essential power...