Word: flaneur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while Wilde insisted that style alone could create sincerity. It was in Shaw's nature to be a teetotaler, to dress in all the sincerity of rough Jaeger woolens, to stand on a soapbox and preach rebellion in pouring rain. Wilde made it his duty to be "a flaneur, a dandy, a man of fashion," and to preach revolution only in the best London drawing rooms. Shaw said bluntly: "All great truths begin as blasphemies," while Wilde remarked, with his lips ever so lightly curled: "If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found...