Word: debonaire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...nearly done, glacial Mr. Welles melted ever so slightly; he seemed pleasantly weary, a touch debonair. He was happy to be home, and admitted it. A reporter referred to the 13-hour Gibraltar delay while British searched the Conte di Savoia for Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, once Nazi Minister of Economics. Newsman: "Was Dr. Schacht in your trunk?" Grinned Mr. Welles: "Just like Morgan's midget...
...fishing boat in Captains Courageous. It is no more a surprise to find him on the warpath than to find toothless Walter Brennan or Isabel Jewell, who is dragged from the burning Indian village, cussing and clawing with her usual high spirits. The shocking thing is to see debonair, man-of-the-world Robert Young, smiling perkily in his best bedside manner in the middle of the howling wilderness. He stops when he makes the unsoldierly mistake of looking at his bayonet after using...
...remodeled the theatre at great personal expense. "If Paris is not bombarded," said he, "I will have the most beautiful theatre in the world. And if Paris is destroyed, what does it matter if I lose everything?" No bombs fell, and the play-love mixed with politics, a debonair French man and a Nazi-persecuted Austrian countess-was a hit. Proceeds of the first night went to soldiers in the Maginot Line, in the form of comfort kits...