Word: debonairly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harold Hand, 53, professor of education at the University of Illinois, debonair devotee of the theory that traditional subjects are less important than service to society. As a member of the influential Illinois curriculum program, Professor Hand has spread his gospel throughout his state, has helped arouse dozens of schools and communities to work more closely together. "There are," he says, "community needs that simply have to be met. But anything we ask a youngster to do has got to have a clear relationship to something he wants. So we need to have things that the community needs make sense...
...Functions of Twentieth Century Architecture. The son of a professor of architecture, Hamlin entered the field almost by instinct ("Well, let's put it this way. I never wanted to do any thing else"), made a name for himself in practice, turned to teaching, became the bearded, debonair exponent of a brand of functionalism not divorced from humanity: "The pleasure one gets from perceiving character in a building is not merely a cold realization of the mechanical fitness of its forms to the purpose they serve; it is a definitely emotional reaction as well. The good building puts...
...well as he can; maybe God will give the increase; that is His responsibility. Thus he works with the strain off. It is sometimes wise to remember that there is such a thing as Christian nonchalance. Maybe there is room for a new beatitude: 'Blessed are the debonair,' in whom the Word of God sparkles with graciousness and charm...
...such sharpshooter is debonair Kurt Bader, 36, an ingenious German whose flair for showmanship unhappily surpasses his marksmanship. With his wife Hildegard, Kurt billed his show as "Aal Cherry & Mac Zero, the World-Famous Sharpshooting Act." His act involved a machine like an egg beater, across which pretty little Mac, arrayed in shorts and bra, could be tastefully spread-eagled and rotated as a "human windmill." Last week, after putting their two daughters to bed in a hotel room nearby, Aal & Mac went into their act at Cologne's Kaiserhof Theater. Their eleven-year-old son Hubert strapped...
...West Point through André, and the young English major would be firmly set in his army career for life. Caught in civilian clothes at the very edge of success, tried and convicted as a spy, he gave the world a classic lesson in how a brave and debonair soldier should meet his death. Marching to his execution, on a hill west of Tappan, N.Y., he remarked to his captors: "I am very much surprised to find your troops under such good discipline, and your music is excellent...