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Almost any other Senator would have sought some method to explain that letter away, but not handsome, debonair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Carolina Pull | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...more happy, when, with heart's content, Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/20/1936 | See Source »

...beginning where Adventuress Dietrich bumps together the heads of a jeweller and a psychiatrist, in order to get away with a gorgeous string of stolen pearls, to the point at the end where those same two dupes are joyful witnesses at the wedding, the atmosphere is charged with worldly, debonair mirth. But don't get the idea that there's anything namby-pamby or arty about this picture. Gary Cooper is a sturdy automobile engineer from Detroit, a man of strong passions and few words. And although the picture takes several delightful dips into the risque...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

Robert Taylor begins his carcer as a debonair and very winning wastrel. And he stays in that role until his charming frivolity has indirectly caused the death of a surgeon and the blinding of the surgeon's young wife (Irene Dunne), with whom Robert has fallen thoroughly in love...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...Dapper, debonair, lavishly educated abroad, Clarence Hungerford Mackay continued to spin the web his father had begun until it was a $120,000,000 world-wide system. Then, after presiding over Western Union's only competitor for a quarter century, he sold out in 1928 to International Telephone & Telegraph which, under the direction of the Brothers Behn, was gobbling up communication companies in all the world's corners. As I. T. & T. has since learned, the Postal System was no bargain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Postal Down | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

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