Word: debonaire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lepke in New York's official hands, the U.S. Government must issue a conditional pardon. On three occasions, says the Kings County attorney, he has formally asked Washington to hand Lepke over. But Lepke was not delivered. Smoking good cigars, his shoes highly polished, his manner debonair, he was photographed from time to time on his way to & from Supreme Court appeals, etc. The Justice Department says primly that New York's Governor has never asked for the prisoner except indirectly, "through the newspapers...
WITHOUT LAWFUL AUTHORITY - Manning Coles - Crime Club ($2). A prewar adventure in Nazi spy-chasing with Tommy Hambledon, hero of Drink to Yesterday, etc., sharing honors with a vengeful ex-Tank Corps officer and a debonair safecracker. Explosive action all the way, with a pitched battle in an English insane asylum to top it off. For spy-story enthusiasts, this...
Dramatis Personae. This was a conference such as history had never seen. The President, with debonair disregard for proverbs about eggs in a single basket, took along Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall; COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King; Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, Chief of Army Air Forces; Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Chief of the Army's Services of Supply; the President's alter ego Harry Hopkins. In Africa they were joined by Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the North African AEF; by Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, deputy commander; by Major General...
...lets his deputy, quiet, able Roy Maxwell Drummond, handle most of the administrative problems. He likes to pop into the desert headquarters of the debonair Antipodean, Arthur Coningham (whose nickname "Mary" is corrupted from "Maoris," the name of the fierce New Zealand aborigines). He frequently pops into squadron posts and tells maintenance men to ask him questions. They take the Chief at his word: "When are we getting rid of this bloody antiquated lathe?" Air force men of one unit, not recognizing the coatless man who stopped by one morning, started kidding him about the regulation black...
...world's stubbornest problems had to be faced, in sample form, last week by the once debonair Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor. He had given up the throne of Britain, and as Governor of the tiny Bahamas he might have been expected to escape grave political difficulties. At the beginning of the week, indeed, he was not even in the Bahamas. He was in the U.S. preparing to celebrate the fifth anniversary of his marriage to his chic Duchess, and he had just lunched at the White House with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But, with the persistence...