Word: debonairly
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...Berkeley Bell, 22-year-old Texas tennis star, by defeating debonair, beret-wearing Jean Borotra, only French entrant: in the first round of the national singles championship at Forest Hills...
...flown over to Paris for Rene Lacoste's wedding to the French golf champion, Mile Simone Thion de la Chaume. When he returned to the centre court at Wimbledon, Cochet argued like a tired attorney. He won the first two games, but after that the debonair and biting edge of his game disappeared. Allison, stubborn, strong, insistent, won the first set 6-4 and then the second, by the same score. In the last, with the score 5-3 and 40-30 against him, Cochet patted a slow return, sighed as it fell into the net, walked forward...
Held was one Mike Malloy, accused of steering eager contractors looking for U. S. jobs to the law office of young, debonair, Son Curtis...
...first suggestion he offers "Is Sex Necessary?" a delightful parody on the steadily accumulating mass of literature, smacking strongly of Freud and driving the debonair dandy and the dilettantish debutante into a maze of inhibitions and high-priced psychiatrists. This clever satire, minus the usual steel edge, will, the Vagabond is convinced, be an excellent defense mechanism against the strongest pent-up fixation. It is funny...
Possibly William Faversham was satisfied with "Her Friend the King", in which he is now playing at the Apollo theater, for it does give him an opportunity to perform three acts in the debonair fashion that becomes him so well. But the play can hardly be said to meet any other standards of taste. The manuscript might well have been a composite of the theater's most familiar scenes, for there is scarcely a situation that has not become painfully hackneyed through years of repetition; and their quality is not improved by the latest transmission. With such material the struggles...