Word: debonaire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most facile of writers is debonair Paul Reboux, editor, dramatic critic, parodist and bon vivant, author of The Little Papa-coda, Romulus Cuckoo, Colin, or the Tropical Voluptuaries. Among his other works, nimble Critic Reboux has paid homage to France's national sport and greatest glory, Gastronomy, by publishing a cook book, Plats Nouveaux...
...royal palace at Kabul, Padishah Habibullah, as the muscular Bacha Sakao now calls himself, opened no boxes, neither tugged nor grunted. He, debonair, wears tight kid gloves to show his gentility, brandishes two loaded rifles to show his dexterity, wears plentiful ammunition against emergencies, rules most of Afghanistan...
...Love Duel. It would save a great deal of translating if English-writing dramatists could learn of the debonair didos that presumably occur in Vienna and Budapest after the curtains are drawn. But to most English-writing dramatists sex remains the cue for either a problem play or an Oriental extravaganza. Therefore central Europe is combed for playwrights akin to the gently libidinous Ferenc Molnar. One of the latest combings is Lili Hatvany, authoress of The Love Duel...
Small wonder that Author Wallace, indefatigable, portly and debonair, lives a crowded schedule. He begins the day at 7 o'clock by consuming eight newspapers, dictates mysteries until 10 a.m., breakfasts, resumes writing until 1. In the afternoons he supervises his play rehearsals, inspects cinema versions of his stories, or attends the races. He owns a string of horses and squanders a literarily fabulous income...
...Pair of Stories.?The popular im pression that Norwegian nature is a monotone in its cold indifference Ibsen somewhat dispelled by his twin studies of the two Norwegian extremes: Peer Gynt, shiftless, debonair; and Brandt, steadfast, bitterly serious-minded. To dispel another popular impression?that the Vikings were god-like blonds exclusively engaged in swift sea fights?Sigrid Undset in turn makes twin studies: the Kristin Lavrans datter trilogy of some 500,000 words, and The Master of Hestviken, unfinished tetralogy. Both concern marriage attained through unatoned sin, maintained despite suspicion and recrimination, resolved at last by death...