Word: debonaire
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Miss Moore, I'm all aflutter," gasped Harvard's handsomest man, footballer Don Forte, last evening, after he had been prematurely selected by the Adams House Committee as Miss Moore's "prettiest" choice from among the Beau Brummels of the Gold Coast. Debonair in palm beach tuxedo instead of shoulder pads, "Handsome Don" wilted under the rapid-fire kisses (Hollywood brand) of Miss Moore as she forced her attentions and the all-College title on the shy young hero...
...From somewhere in Axis territory, debonair Subhas Chandra Bose, veteran Indian National Congress leader who fled India in 1941, preaches Axis propaganda by radio. The effect of Bose and other scattered Axis partisans in India is impossible to gauge...
...last two theatre seasons the gentle art of murder has come into its own before the footlights, both in comedy and tragedy. Carrying on in the debonair fashion set by "Arsenic and Old Lace," the play "Mr. and Mrs. North," deals with the more hilarious aspects of homicide. A very dead and bloody corpse is discovered keeping company with the scotch bottles in the liquor closet. Naturally its unwilling hosts, the Norths, are suspected, as is their small group of friends. Among these are such sinister characters as the dead man's wife and her lover as well...
...stand, Tommy was, as usual, cool, debonair, confident. He admitted that he had made some $100,000 in lawyer's fees, mostly in connection with Government business. He insisted stoutly that he had done no wrong, used no political influence-that he had merely advised his clients what to do, where to go, how to manage deals with the Government. As for Empire, said Tommy, Cohen had asked him for advice. Too busy to handle the case himself, he recommended another law firm, collected $5,000 as his share of their...
...Debonair Rex Tugwell has been interested in sugar since 1933. He first got interested in Puerto Rico back in 1934 when with Muñoz Marin 's help he set up the commission which drafted a plan to redistribute some 200,000 corporately held acres of Puerto Rico's 300,000 acres of sugar-cane land in tracts of 500 acres or less. Then Tugwell fell from Roosevelt favor and relapsed into political obscurity - from which Secretary Harold Ickes rescued him last winter by sending him to Puerto Rico to study land...