Word: debonairly
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...commonplace to note that New York, once one of the most intensely political towns in the country, is now in the midst of a perverse political lull. Gone are the flashy pretty-boys like John Lindsay, the debonair playboys like Jimmy Walker, the fiery sidewalk-thumpers like Fiorello LaGuardia and the mediocre but endearing swindlers like Bill O'Dwyer. The city that could once churn out Roosevelts and Wagners now contents itself with failed accountants like Abe Beame, who chased political shadows in the dark of a summer blackout. Mediocrity on an unprecedented scale. Yet even those ciphers seem awesome...
...Auberjonois). A debonair English visitor (Denholm Elliott), who is a lively connoisseur of filly flesh, helps the comedy peak to Feydeau-like farce...
Soon after the Cairo conference got under way, however, Saudi Arabia's debonair Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, rose to announce that his country was pledging $1 billion in aid to black Africa. Suddenly, other oil-rich Arabs chimed in-Kuwait with $240 million, the United Arab Emirates with $136 million and Qatar with $76 million. Rather like poor relatives embarrassed by the contributions of wealthier family members, even Jordan and Egypt -which is currently negotiating a $450 million loan from the International Monetary Fund-pledged $1 million apiece to help guerrilla organizations in southern Africa...
...theme song in the long and strident campaign had been a snappy rendition of Coney Island Baby, calling to mind his debonair manner and cherubic smile. But on the day after the votes were counted, his top aide said: "We're going to change to With a Little Bit of Luck." As it turned out, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 49, needed all the luck of the Irish last week to defeat Congresswoman Bella Abzug, 56, by 1% of the total vote to win a five-candidate contest for the Democratic senatorial nomination in New York State...
...Hollywood and was subsequently jailed for three years for plotting, with seven others, to extort $1 million from movie companies. The muscle: threatening to use a Mafia-controlled union of stagehands to close down production unless the studios paid up. Even so, the dapper, debonair Roselli remained a luminary of sorts in Hollywood. He married a starlet, got a piece of two nightclubs, and helped produce two crime films in the late 1940s, Canyon City and He Walked by Night. Says a producer who knew him at the time...