Word: debonairly
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...thousand pages about the Kennedy White House, written in the year after JFK's assassination. In his grief, Schlesinger portrayed Kennedy as saint and martyr: "He was a Harvard man, a naval hero, an Irishman, a politician, a bon vivant, a man of unusual intelligence, charm, wit and ambition, 'debonair and brilliant and brave,' but his deeper meaning was still in process of crystallization." In recent decades, a more thorough and honest parsing of Kennedy has edited a lot of the hagiology out of his memory...
...scandalous She Done Him Wrong, released in the early 1930s. Taking place in a New York City dance hall during the "gay 90's" (that's the 1890s), the film tells the story of the "man eating," Diamond Lou, who can only be reigned in by the dashingly debonair Cary Grant...