Word: debonair
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Many a fantastic tale was told of the late William J. Fallen, debonair, daring, egotistical criminal defender for many of Manhattan's biggest racketeers two decades ago. None was more fantastic than Fallon's reputed stunt of gulleting a bottle of poison, completing his argument to the jury, sauntering out of the court and then rushing frantically to a private room where waiting doctors cleaned him out with a stomach pump...
...selection, is one of the most unrestrained of the lot of unblushing melodramas that evoked tears, hisses, and loud huzzahs from the playgoers of the nineties. Being for this reason one of the worst plays ever written, it becomes ideal material for the histrionics of a group of debonair young...
...Behind the scenes flames a speculation whether debonair, urbane, Utopian Rexford Guy Tugwell will be the ace of the braintrusters in President Roosevelt's second Administration as he was in the first. Indications are that he will. . . . Tug-well's star blazes as brightly as ever...
...Catalonia, where he had fled a month ago, Spain's President Manuel Azaña was able cheerfully to boast last week: "The whole of Catalonia is concentrating on efforts to fight for the Republic!" That this was no idle bombast was evident when 6,000 Catalonians under debonair Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti marched to the relief of Madrid. Also fighting with the beleaguered Red militia, who for the first time were reported using poison gas, was a stalwart pro-Red column of volunteers, made up of Russians, Italians, French, Germans and Poles. From among Madrid's refugee-swollen...
...aristocratic Madrid Fine Arts Club mobster judges in blue overalls continued to deal out what they called "Class Justice" last week. With no war or battle in Madrid, the capital's gravediggers by official count were nevertheless burying some 250 corpses per week. In jail sat the once debonair Duke of Zaragoza, the playboy engineer who sometimes took the throttle of King Alfonso's private train, with the Madrid proletariat clamoring outside last week for a chance to throttle him. After a White air raid on the capital Premier Largo Caballero had to use all force...