Word: debonairly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though his patience was often tried to the breaking point, debonair, dignified District Judge Harold Medina let them go their long-winded way. But last week, with something of the air of a sleepless man shouting at 3 o'clock revelers, the judge finally called a halt...
...lawyers tediously cross-examined 24 jurors, trying to prove that New York federal juries discriminated against Negroes, Jews, the poor. Rocking back & forth in a high-backed chair, Jurist Medina now & again pleaded with the Communists' shouting, ranting lawyers to remember where they were. Justice was also debonair and deft, so that even Party-Liner Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast, writing in the Communist Daily Worker, acknowledged Medina's "old world charm," and recognized that "like many other good performers, he knows the understress is of more value than the bludgeon ... It is quite apparent, even through...
Alger Hiss dressed and presented himself once again in Judge Clancy's courtroom. His debonair manner had vanished. His boyish face was a bleak, set mask. He was charged, he was told, with perjury. How did he plead? "I plead not guilty to both counts," he said...
...crusader, setting forth like Wendell Willkie to take the nation by storm. He was no debonair partisan like Franklin Roosevelt, raking the opposition with scornful broadsides...
...sees no essential inconsistency in his position. He does not see any incongruity in the grandson of Uncle Henry reading with an air of furious sincerity a speech ghostwritten for him by Lewis Frank Jr., the debonair son of a Detroit Christmas tinsel manufacturer. The Frank speeches, so different from Wallace's own rambling style, bristle with Communist clichés, un-deviatingly follow the Communist line...