Word: rakishly
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Armed with a convenient $900,000 inheritance, Ava bribes her rakish ne'er-do-well of a cousin (Melvyn Douglas) to break up Mitchum's home by seducing his wife (Janis Carter)-a job Douglas seems perfectly willing to attempt without pay. But, on the point of success, Douglas accidentally kills his quarry. Mitchum, suspected of doing his wife in, can be saved only by Ava's last-minute confession of her foul scheme...
...began playing it last week on Broadway. To Broadway, which found five years long enough for Oklahoma!, those 18 years seemed either a miracle or a misprint. Not that the idea of the play-which inverts a copybook moral-isn't amusing enough. Henry Dewlip begins as a rakish, well-adjusted bachelor, is misled into sowing his tame oats, and then happily restored to rakishness...
...Cibber reformed his rakish hero, Loveless, at the end: Vanbrugh wrote The Relapse to show that Loveless would not have stayed reformed. Love's Last Shift is otherwise chiefly noteworthy for having once been translated into French as La dernière Chemise de l'Amour...
...which was close to the ragged edge last year when a $44 million RFC loan saved it, had already moved into the black in July with its sleek, rakish Kaiser. Last week, K-F, which is making 400 Henry Js a day, turned out a new daily peak of 1,200 cars. Furthermore, Edgar Kaiser predicted 1,600 a day as soon as a second shift gets rolling. Edgar also had thinned out K-F's inefficient dealers by trimming the number of agencies from...
...readers leafed through the advertisements in Esquire last week, they found one that was somewhat different. Instead of the usual collection of he-men modeling pipes, brogues and rakish hats, there was a sylphlike female clad only in a scanty girdle...