Word: rakishness
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...Norfolk Navy Yard last week shipwrights swarmed over a rakish gunboat, reconverting her into a presidential yacht for Harry Truman. She was the U.S.S. Williamsburg, lately with the Atlantic Fleet, before that a high-speed convoy flagship based in Iceland...
...patrol picked up Papen in the Ruhr. They found him dining alone in elegant splendor. He wore his accustomed knickerbockers (he is proud of his legs); on a couch rested a Tyrolean hat with a rakish feather. "There are no German soldiers here," he said in impeccable English. " I can't imagine what you want with...
Vandenberg (a nephew of Michigan's U.S. Senator) gets along with his crewmen and enlistees by talking air-slanguage with the slangiest of them,* playing volleyball and ping-pong with them, and usually beating them. A dashing figure in impeccable uniform, cap set at a rakish angle, he seems to be always in action. He usually flies his own Thunderbolt in hops to staff headquarters. Back at his own post, he wants a lot of his own staff around in the evening, insists on singing with a quartet although he cannot carry a tune...
...command the new army "Ike" Eisenhower chose an airman; bright-eyed, 54-year-old, rakish Lieut. General Lewis Hyde Brereton, who had bossed the Ninth U.S. (Tactical) Air Force in its scourging campaign in France in support of Allied ground troops. Annapolis-trained Lewis Brereton had seen more of World War II than most U.S. generals. In the attack on the Philippines he had lost all but a fragment of his air force, had moved on to Java, then to India, where he organized the Tenth Air Force, then to the Middle East where he commanded the Ninth which made...
They wore rakish straw and panama hats gleaned on the march. One Maori wheeled his Bren gun in a streamlined perambulator. Another wore a silk hat and carried a walking stick, his Bren gun strapped across his back. One company marched into a village, captured outlying houses in the midst of their own barrage. Complained a prisoner: "We didn't think you would come until the barrage lifted...