Word: raffish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parisians were crowding into a small Left Bank gallery to look at La Goulue and 29 other posters that had established Lautrec as the master poster artist of all time. The first complete set on view in many a year, the sprawling lithographs showed Paris in the '90s, raffish and glamorously depraved...
...thirst (Jessie Royce Landis); her daughter, a boxer's wife and almost anybody's woman; her adopted daughter, a rather noisily religious girl; her chief roomer, a Magnolia Streetwalker; and enough men to illustrate the women's ways. Done right, it might have been enjoyably raffish. Since Playwright Batson's script was as tasteless and untidy as his people's lives, it was just unpleasantly dull...
...ships disappeared from the river. Only the Day Line, "the Albany night boat," and a few others lingered on. The day boats maintained an air of spinsterish respectability. The night boat took on a raffish tilt. It became the favorite vehicle of newlyweds and not-yet-weds, of petty coggers and straw-hatted drummers. Later, vacationists bound for the Adirondacks still patronized it, grateful that they could stow their cars in its hold and their young in its berths...
...Margot Metroland) and her son, Peter Pastmaster; Sir Alastair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington and Viola Chasm. This glittering, blandly selfish, pretentiously stupid upper-class riffraff was to romp through most of Waugh's later books, sharing their futile power for pointless and appalling mischief with such later creations as raffish, rascally Basil Seal, motorbiking Father Rothschild (a member of a younger branch of the banking family, who had become a Jesuit priest), and the American evangelist, Mrs. Melrose Ape. With her cotton-winged angels (Chastity, Divine Discontent, et al.), Mrs. Ape wowed high society by singing her inspirational hymn: There...
...soaked, raffish, turbulent Marseille, the largest seaport and the second city of France, resembles in many ways the San Francisco of Barbary Coast days and the Chicago of Al Capone's era. Animosity between Gaullists and Communists reaches a shriller pitch in Marseille than anywhere else in France. In Marseille last week the new R.P.F. (Gaullist) mayor, Michel Carlini, 58, who had been mauled by a Red mob, lay on a couch, his head wrapped in bandages, and said...