Word: debonaire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through a series of events involving a break with her mother (who would have her dress forever in black), a repulsed advance from a friend, a trip to California and a broken pair of skis, she meets the shaggy but debonair Brent. Although he isn't the "marrying type," Miss Stanwyck gets so enthused that this doesn't phase her at all. But when her friends start talking and the jitterbugging boys get score because Mom has forgotten Pop so soon, she decides she can't go off with Brent. Brent saves the day by becoming the marrying type after...
...grey eyes. Then he drove her to his old brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, and showed her the roulette table prettily concealed behind the Victorian knickknacks. Estelle, "wearing a décolletage which . . . did a good deal for a roulette player's perspective," shortly became the principal attraction of debonair J. Bates Upham's fashionable gambling joint...
...refugee Romanov princess, ended up as a prisoner of the Allies. The eldest son, Wilhelm, lost favor when he married a commoner. He was killed in Belgium in World War II. Air-minded Hubertus joined Hitler's Luftwaffe, rose to a captaincy, was at last reports still flying. Debonair Friedrich, the youngest son, was caught in London at the war's outbreak, interned in Canada, not to his regret...
Donald is flanked on his tour of the Good-Neighborhood by debonair...
Laura (20th Century-Fox), thanks to some slick direction by Otto Preminger and a cast out of the top drawer, is a highly polished and debonair whodunit with only one inelegant smudge on its gleaming surface. In swank settings that cry for a pinch of poison or at least a dainty derringer, the victim is obliged for purposes of plot to have her pretty face blown off by a double-barreled shotgun fired at close range...