Word: debonaire
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...nearly done, glacial Mr. Welles melted ever so slightly; he seemed pleasantly weary, a touch debonair. He was happy to be home, and admitted it. A reporter referred to the 13-hour Gibraltar delay while British searched the Conte di Savoia for Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, once Nazi Minister of Economics. Newsman: "Was Dr. Schacht in your trunk?" Grinned Mr. Welles: "Just like Morgan's midget...
...fishing boat in Captains Courageous. It is no more a surprise to find him on the warpath than to find toothless Walter Brennan or Isabel Jewell, who is dragged from the burning Indian village, cussing and clawing with her usual high spirits. The shocking thing is to see debonair, man-of-the-world Robert Young, smiling perkily in his best bedside manner in the middle of the howling wilderness. He stops when he makes the unsoldierly mistake of looking at his bayonet after using...
...remodeled the theatre at great personal expense. "If Paris is not bombarded," said he, "I will have the most beautiful theatre in the world. And if Paris is destroyed, what does it matter if I lose everything?" No bombs fell, and the play-love mixed with politics, a debonair French man and a Nazi-persecuted Austrian countess-was a hit. Proceeds of the first night went to soldiers in the Maginot Line, in the form of comfort kits...
Although the management of the Met has seen fit to bill "The Earl of Chicago" second to Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey in "Balalaika," it is the Robert Montgomery vehicle which makes the evening worth while. Bob forsakes his debonair Piccadilly Jim pose and goes to town with a portrayal of the shock effect of English upper class mores upon a typical Chicago, gangster...
...carpet Getulio Vargas there upon haled his debonair Director of Propaganda Lourival Fontes, to find out why Brazilian Fascism was getting a bad press. Senhor Fontes' answer was brief and to the point: Brazil's newspapers were sick of censorship...