Word: raffishly
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Neither age, pain, nor liquor had dulled the intent and raffish gleam in his eye. His distrust of property men, doctors and small children was undiminished. His voracious love of life and laughs had not failed, and he still eyed the world with the spurious heartiness of a man with an ace up his sleeve. But his body was flabby and old, and his fiery, bulbous nose had become a shocking badge of suffering. Last week, after 67 years, death finally hoodwinked W. C. Fields, the noblest confidence man of them...
Beggar's Holiday (book & lyrics by John Latouche; music by Duke Ellington; produced by Perry Watkins & John R. Sheppard Jr.) is "based on" John Gay's renowned and raffish 18th Century Beggar's Opera. The debt to Gay is not large. Beggar's Holiday has a present-day setting, a new book, new lyrics and new music. What it has kept is the general movement of the story, the principal low-life characters (one or two in name only) and the cheeky last-minute happy ending...
...Editor Guy Schofield suggests that he drop his column for a while and turn to something else. He did agree to cover part of the Nürnberg trials, but floundered badly among the super criminals, and was as happy as his readers when he got back to his raffish, minor-rogues' gallery...
...soon began to feel as though he were living under a magnifying glass. The tabloid New York Daily News began referring to him as a Love Child. The tabloid Daily Mirror, disregarding facts, made up a raffish story of its own. It suggested that Mrs. Greer had been secretly married to the late George V of England, concluded that Harold Segur was probably the Duke of Windsor's half brother. Segur grew more & more confused...
Beer & Free Lunch. Hinky Dink and his lifelong partner, Bathhouse John Coughlin, had set out to rule these rich and raffish stews of the new metropolis. Bathhouse John, once a rubber in a Turkish oath, was the front man. He was a huge, bumbiing. handsome ruffian, full of pomp, speech and warm red blood. Tight-lipped Hinky Dink was the boss. They were elected aldermen; together they controlled the vote, became loved, feared, respected...