Word: debonaire
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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...
...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...