Word: debonaire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concept is cogent if not staggeringly original, and on-the-spot scenes in Berlin, Rome, and Madrid add force to the picture. Ann Richards contributes one of the most perfect speaking voices ever recorded, Sylvia Sidney an excellent performance, and Robert Young a debonair priggishness. He is the very model of a blind American ambassador...
Engaged. The Hon. Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, 22, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria goddaughter of the Duke of Windsor,'eldest daughter of Viscount Mountbatten, debonair Admiral of the Royal Navy, former Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia; and Norton Cecil Michael Knatchbull, sixth Baron Brabourne, 21, son of the late cricket-playing Governor of Bombay and Bengal; in London...
...Harvardmen will recognize the traits and the chatter. The Master of "Bromfield House," who enters on a card each new pun he divines in Finnegans Wake; the English department poet whose looks at least were once Keatsian; the Fogg Art Museum curator and his inseparable friends, young men of debonair malice; the publicity-seeking psychologist from the Midwest and his wife, resolutely unrepressed; and Dorothea's husband, John Calcott, a gentleman. Calcott, always well under control, stuns Dorothea in 1940 by coming to life and joining the British Navy...
This week scholarly, debonair Dr. Wei delivered the last of the six Hewett Lectures, founded in 1923 to provide speakers on "the truths of Christianity" to Union, Andover-Newton, and Episcopal Theological Seminaries. After highlighting the background of Chinese culture, he went on in his hesitant, pleasantly gurgling English to impress his students with the importance of adapting organized Christianity to Chinese usages...
...Debonair Dancer Fred Astaire matching taps with Gene Kelly, also lightfooting with ex-Copacabana show girl Lucille Bremer through a magnificent pantomime of Limehouse Blues...