Word: debonaire
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...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...
There was many an awkward delay before the U.S.S. West Point finally got away. In San Francisco, 2,570 miles away, debonair Consul General Captain Fritz Wiedemann and Dr. Johannes Borchers, German consul general in New York City, with an entourage of 14 people, had had to cancel their passage on a Japanese liner sailing two days before the President's deadline expired on July 15. The British safe conduct to Japan had arrived too late. Captain Wiedemann talked to Washington and Berlin. Then he chartered three planes, stowed his party and their luggage aboard, and sped eastward. Said...
Entrepreneur of this quadruple play was an Italian count (who likes to be called Mr.), debonair Giovanni Naselli. Born in Manhattan 45 years ago, and hence a U.S. citizen, the count is no Fascist although he spent about ten years making rayon and lire in the Rome branch of the huge Società Generate Italiana della Viscosa, a world leader in cheap rayon manufacture. In 1933 he went to Mexico City, there started his own rayon twisting plant, Cia. Nacional de Artisela. S.A., whose 25,000 spindles now twist 60% of Mexico's rayon yarn and make...