Word: debonair
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...middle-readers were predominantly Nelson, judicial, greying Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, debonair, trigger-quick Under Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal. Patterson and Forrestal clung to the road's middle as desperately as if the road shoulders were mined...
...hard to believe that the reporter who had calmly defined the worst gangsters of the decade was the same person as the debonair, quiet speaking Arthur Wild, across the desk of the H.A.A...
Light story and light co-star notwithstanding, Ronald Colman manages to get in his familiar heroic touch. Whether is Shangri-La or Greenwich Village, he remains always the debonair adventurer with poetry in his words and visions in his eyes. "Lucky Partners" isn't one of his epics, but it does reach a decent level...
...Mayor James John Walker of New York City, blithe, debonair, and Tammany's greatest vote-getter, swamped his Republican rival by 500,000 votes. The rival was Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. In 1932 Governor Franklin Roosevelt held hearings on Mayor Walker's conduct of his office, during which Mayor Walker resigned. Fiorello LaGuardia, making much of Mayor Walker's misdoings, in due time became New York City's mayor...
Chip Robert, in Des Moines, listening to Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace (see p. 73), jumped a plane and returned, with a debonair statement on arrival. Said Chip: "I have always been taught to cross my 'Bridges' when I get to them. ... I have been investigated all my life-and by professionals...