Word: raffish
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...below estimates. Various reasons for the lag are advanced -not enough outlets, weak promotion, bad odds (1,000,000 to 1 for top prize of $100,000), and the unexciting legality of the whole thing. Some gamblers feel that their pastime has to be more attuned to the raffish ways of Moe the Gyp than to the clean-cut operation of Nelson the Rock. The mystique has to do with smoky back rooms and the smell of the paddocks, with whispered hunches and looking bored while four aces burn a hole in your hand...
...iambic pentameter with inborn ease. As the lickerish and liquorish Petruchio, Burton pursues his Kate with a weary, beery smile that promises temptation and trouble. An inspired chase across rooftops and into piles of fleece establishes him as a kind of King Leer, the supreme embodiment of a raffish comic hero...
...year later, Luce returned from Europe with a mustache, a cane, a pair of spats and two dimes in his pocket. He managed to land a job on the Chicago Daily News as an assistant to Ben Hecht. Hecht was a raffish columnist (and later a playwright) who used Luce as a legman to supply suggestions and information about such people as snake charmers and blind violinists. Among the paper's reporters and editors, Luce was considered something of a dandy and a dilettante. Dressed to meet his girl, he ran into the managing editor in the elevator...
...publishers, and it is even more fascinating than they admit. On the surface, this novel by the well-praised author of The Man Who Loved Chil dren (TIME, April 2, 1965) is a finely if lushly written story about Nellie Cotter, a left-wing journalist and later a raffish London bohemian. Nellie is the most forceful character in the Cotter family, whose life offers a sad insight into the awful milieu of the British working class in the industrial landscape of the Tyneside. A feast for the Cotters is one chicken in the pot, brought to the boil in saltless...
...churchgoing in Pennsylvania Dutch country. It also succeeds in the tricky business of interweaving the self-questioning of a troubled young father undergoing analysis with a description of the significance of the Eucharist. At a Bar in Charlotte Amalie could easily have been just another set piece about a raffish gin mill in which just about every type turns up but the anonymous and unseen narrator. Actually, it is a tense little moral essay on true and false innocence, demonstrated in terms of a hat with dancing birds on it. The hat has been made by a homosexual...