Word: popinjays
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...Arch Duchess Marie Louise going to have her Nap (showing the future Empress of France in bed with Napoleon), Satirist Carle Vernet was able to reply with an incomparably more subtle study called Les Anglais a Paris, three figures of a girl, a fat boy, and a military popinjay which still contain nearly all the French have to say about the English character...
...Affairs of Maupassant (Panta Films), in presuming to bring to fervent consummation a liaison that was really carried on entirely by mail between Guy de Maupassant and Marie Bashkirtseff, makes Maupassant out something of a popinjay, shows Marie, in the person of Lili Darvas (wife of Ferenc Molnar), as a luscious morsel even when she is dying a Camille-like death...
...American Woodsman." Certain wistful biographers have hoped that John James Audubon was really the lost Dauphin, sneaked from Paris during the French Revolution. Audubon himself may have thought he was. A vain man, he affected popinjay dress against the dun background of Pennsylvania Quakers, crow's raiment in dandiacal English society. At any rate, his origins were mysterious. He was, perhaps, born in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo (now Haiti) in 1785. Little is known of him before he was 9, when he was legally adopted in France by one Captain Audubon, who said he was the child...
Samoyede. The best was Mushnick of the Wingbrook Kennels-a dog like a fluffy, courtly wolf, with a cat's feet, and the face of a tiny, popinjay lion...
...amorous lion, his strides in high, patent-leather boots. On a white charger he leads his mercenaries into battle and pushes back with long, stiffened fingers the cloaks attached to various 18th Century uniforms. He is a soldier of fortune who earns his living fighting wars for popinjay princes and who takes a dislike to his current employer because of a remark the latter has passed about his (Crack's) mother. Best shot: Crack, at the battle front, making sissified King Leopold (Lowell Sherman) drop a handkerchief as a signal for shooting an officer...