Word: debonaire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Christian Bullitt, debonair, billiard-bald, onetime U.S. Ambassador to France, joined the French Army in Algiers, after completing an assignment by LIFE to write articles on France and Italy. Bullitt said he would keep his U.S. citizenship, got from the French the rank of commandant (U.S.: major...
...quintessence of the pathos, dignity and ludicrousness which old age can display. Father O'Malley, still more dangerously, might have been one of those brisk, bland up-&-comers who have made an impure science of "not acting like a priest at all." Instead he is subtle, gay, debonair-a wise young priest whose arresting resemblance to Bing Crosby never obscures his essential power...
Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, handsome, debonair Allied chief for Southeast Asia, slapped in the left eye by a stalk of bamboo while on a jeep tour of the Burma front, was treated for a minor face...
...with the memory of the last exam still making your fingers tired, and that crick in the back you get from bending over a Mem Hall desk. Now is the time. But no mood. You've got to feel debonair, and sentimental in a sophisticated sort of way, to write your farewell. Vag could think of a lot of things he wanted to talk about: the first date at Radcliffe; the first date at Wellesley; the difference. None of that. Stick to the subject. That sort of thing happens all over the world. This is Harvard. This is different...
Elegant Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., the world's only sextuple ambassador, turned up in Washington last week. He skated down the marble halls of the ancient State Department to see his chief, Cordell Hull, emerged 35 minutes later, debonair, gay, loquacious as always...