Word: foppishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correspondents find nothing wrong with Perón personally. He is well-mannered, well-dressed without being particularly stiff or foppish. He can tell a good joke, enjoy a joke at his own expense. A widower, he has a pretty, 17-year-old daughter, Maria Inez. He likes to cook, to fish, to hunt, and to be with a charming movie star named Eva Duarte. An extremely hard worker, he admires Americans because they work hard. At home in drawing rooms, he is equally at ease with workingmen...
...Author. Novelist Llewellyn is more interesting than his hero. His full name is Richard David Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd, and he is so professionally Welsh that a map of Wales is engraved on his cigarette case. Llewellyn wears a big ruby ring, foppish suits, tight-waisted overcoats with outsize boutonnieres...
Waiting on the Portuguese side of the frontier for Carol and Magda was the ex-King's Portuguese business agent, Augusto Lopez Joly. In Lisbon waited the foppish, oily, hand-kissing familiar of Madame Lupescu, M. Ernest Urdarianu who served Carol in Bucharest as Grand Chamberlain. Out of rebuilding Bucharest the King, Lupescu and Urdarianu reputedly cleaned up a king's ransom, and in Bucha rest there is some demand that at least Lupescu and Urdarianu be hanged...
Meticulous is the word for General Papagos. In private life a patrician to his long fingertips, a foppish lover of fine horses and a patron of racing, his lifelong study has been a huge collection of military books. John Metaxas' name went upon the defense system thrown up along the Bulgarian and Yugoslav borders, which were later extended hastily down the Al banian. But in General Papagos' head rests knowledge of every gully and goat track not only in the Greek mountains but far beyond. Like his soldiers, whom amazed correspondents found toiling with out lanterns at midnight...
...good reason for the Advertiser's potency is its editor: farm-born, foppish Grover Cleveland Hall, who ranks with Louisville's Herbert Agar, Richmond's Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, as an editorial influence in the South. When former Governor James M. Cox of Ohio bought the Atlanta Journal last year (TIME, Dec. 25), he offered Editor Hall $10,000 a year-fabulous salary for a Southern editor-and a $25,000 stock interest to leave the Advertiser, move to Atlanta. Publisher Hudson, no piker, heard of the offer, promptly met it, making 52-year-old Grover Hall...