Word: rakishness
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...what most of the reporters at first took to be a hired man-ambled up to see what was going on. He was dressed in blue slacks, a blue denim sports shirt, white rubber-soled shoes, and a floppy Panama straw hat with its brim set at a rakish angle. In a quick doubletake, the reporters recognized the nation's best-known part-time farmer. After greeting his guests genially, Dwight Eisenhower approvingly examined the heifer, the gift of the Montgomery County (Md.) Fair, and asked how old she was. "Eight or nine months," volunteered a voice. Farmer Eisenhower...
...sometimes shoots the caterpillar 13 times, once for each segment. That deadeyed Annie Oakley, the beetle hunter, can bowl over her hard-shelled victims with a saddle shot that pierces a tiny chink in the beetle's armor and penetrates precisely to its central nerve-control station. One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world. Ducking away from the praying mantis' gaping arms, she zooms back and forth like a pendulum behind the giant's head until its narrowly watching eyes tire of keeping track...
Cardboard Jungle. Luis Sagi-Vela, the producer, played the fine old Ezio Pinza role of Emile de Becque with rakish zest (in rust-red plantation suit, blue-and-white-striped shirt, solid beige tie). And Mary Martin's sawed-off dungarees were curvaceously filled by Actress Marta Santa-Olalla. Although she sported the short-clipped Martin hairdo, she lacked something of the girl-next-door appeal...
...racers that bore his name; of a heart ailment; in Camby, Ind. First manufactured in 1911. the Duesenberg racer dominated the Indianapolis Speedway 500-mile race throughout the 1920s From 1929 until 1937, when the Depression killed the demand for high-priced cars ($13,000 and up), the rakish silhouette and high-powered motor (325 h.p. with supercharger, 265 h.p. without) of the celebrated Duesenberg "model J" passenger car made it a favorite with the U.S. and European quality trade, and a model from which manufacturers borrowed features since incorporated in mass-produced American cars...
...models are 1 in. lower, have a wider, cleaner grille, new wrap-around windshields, and slanted headlights for a more rakish look. Mercury's new luxury model, the Montclair, has an even more powerful (198 h.p.) engine and a body that is 2½ in. lower (height: 58½ in.) than other Mercurys...