Word: foppishness
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...field judge. Minister of Education Francesco Ercole will head field telegraph and radio. Minister of Finance Guido Jung has a regiment of artillery. Hardest job goes to Under Secretary of Corporations Alberto Asquini who will be responsible for one of the still untried celeri divisions. Easiest goes to dapper, foppish Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Fulvio Suvich, whose principal job is to serve as Il Duce's messenger boy at international conferences. He will encase his elegant legs in the breeches of the King's own Lancers, the swank Vittorio Emanuele II Regiment, and spend his time galloping back...
...seldom changed. Best known among the 126 Post-Dispatch reporters and newsmen who take their orders from Managing Editor Bovard is probably Paul Y. Anderson, once the paper's East St. Louis correspondent, whose race riot investigations in 1917 started him on his way up. Smarter than his foppish attire would suggest, he is particularly able on the crusade type of story. Many of the crucial questions asked witnesses in the second Oil Scandal investigation (1927-28) were first written down on slips of paper by Anderson and then passed along to the less alert Senate investigators...
...Marcel Achard. A faithful wife (Jessie Royce Landis), disturbed by her husband's jealousy of her onetime lover (Geoffrey Kerr), hires a ne'er-do-well called Domino (Rod La Rocque) to pretend that it is he who has been her lover. The love of Lorette and the foppish Cremone had been a routine, spiritless affair. Domino makes of it a romantic adventure, much to the discomfort of both ex-lovers, much to the bewilderment of the husband, Heller (Robert Loraine). By the time Husband Heller learns which man has really loved his wife it is too late...
...California that was still bristling with forty-niners looked askance at Harte, with his foppish dress, his over-genteel manners. Harte returned the snobbish stare. With the flowing mustaches of his day, a leonine head of hair, an aquiline nose that hinted, without betraying his Jewish ancestry, Harte was a fine figure of a literary man. In later years it was reported that he had lived a rough and minerish life. Biographer Stewart doubts it, thinks Harte's devilishness was mostly in printing offices. As long as Harte kept culling posies from the rhetorical anthology he considered good writing...
...alive in the U. S., whatever may have become of it among the enlightened Soviets. The play soon closed, but Manhattanites had to look no further afield than their own judiciary and police department (TIME, Aug. 25, Dec. 29) to discover a parallel to Gogol's situation: A foppish pipsqueak from St. Petersburg, stranded penniless at a village inn, was mistaken for a tsarist inspector whose coming has been announced and for whom the rascally village officials-mayor, judge, postmaster, et al.-were ready with servile bribes. Facile young Romney Brent made an almost too convincing pipsqueak; pretty Dorothy...