Word: debonairly
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Sadoul, a debonair, middle-aged man, stirred the court and all France by declaring that "it is fantastic to realize that it is yet unknown that, after they came into power, Lenin and Trotzy never ceased to appeal to France for military support that would enable them to resume the war against Germany...
Frans Hals is represented in this group by his Portrait of a Man-a Cavalier in a rakish hat, white ruff, glancing over his shoulder. Hals reproduced this gentleman's debonair carriage, reproduced also, in delicate red, the warts that marred his countenance...
...Thomas?a debonair six-foot shape in blue serge, with crisp yachting cap tilted to starboard?waved his hand. Chatting with pressmen, he stroked his goatee?a preposterous tuft no bigger than a barnacle?responded wittily to their sallies, screwing up his eyes when the sun shone against his face?a very brown face, drawn taut with the whip of sea-salt. "What good is the Cup to America when you have nothing to put in it?" asked he. "I understand the only thing you have left to put in it would burn the bottom...
...English hackney horse. At the recent Bryn Mawr show, he was awarded 21 blue ribbons, an un precedented performance. In the present exhibition, he won the Bal- manno Challenge Cup, defeating his ancient rival, Field Marshal, and a blue in the class for harness horses over 15.2 hands. Blooded, debonair and sleek, Knight Commander is like the horse of a legend: flawless in line; in action, the incarnation of scrupulous dandyism. His performance in this show makes him the most valuable hackney in the world...
Little horses, nervy and debonair, clipping the turf with pointed hoofs, mallets whacking, riders shouldering, wheeling, while young Royalty looks on. At Meadow Brook, the background is grass; at the Wanamaker Art Gallery, Manhattan, it is canvas. An exhibit of Poloiana has opened there. A wooden pony, smartly blanketed, stands at the end of the gallery-a silent symbol of the stable. The room is rigged with saddles, flags, balls, mallets; scenes of the game and portraits of dead and living players cover the walls. A painted Prince, losing in the work of St. Helier Lander something of the incipient...