Word: rakishness
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...rakish as usual were the productions of Elsa Schiaparelli, who supposedly designs in silhouettes with paper and shears. Her best ideas: new "doll" hats suggesting birds' nests, in fur; high-buttoned colored kid boots; tiny electric lights on handbags and ornaments. Schiaparelli's opposites, Vionnet and Alix, who pay heed to anatomy and do their designing on models, showed finely draped and molded dresses. The derivative-exotic appeared in the collections of Molyneux, who used vaguely Oriental touches, Lanvin, who offered Persian toques and flares, and Paquin, whose long, slim, golden gowns suggested the Chinese...
...first time. By secret assignations they share many a trystful profile, give U. S. audiences ample reason to applaud Danielle Darrieux's Dresden-china features. The young Baroness' mother hears of the affair, packs the girl off to forgetfulness in Trieste, where she pines for her rakish Rudolf, finally returns to him. In the hopeless hideaway of his hunting lodge, their story ends...
...reached Port Washington in 5 hr. 49 min. after a brief detour to see the towers of Manhattan. The doggy blue uniform of the Cavalier's Captain William Neville Gumming, veteran of the trans-Mediterranean run, who stepped jauntily ashore carrying kid gloves at a rakish angle in his left hand (see cut, p. 52), brought quips from reporters, who asked if he had brought along a clean shirt. "Oh, I say," he replied, "I'm going back tomorrow...
...Masque of Kings (by Maxwell Anderson; Theatre Guild, producer). Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria-Hungary, a rakish young man with liberal tendencies, was found dead in the hunting lodge at Mayerling on Jan. 30, 1889. With him, also dead, lay the Baroness Mary Vetsera. He was 31, she 18. The scandal shook the Austro-Hungarian Empire to its foundations. And although Emperor Franz Joseph hushed up every detail of the tragedy so thoroughly that the motivation for the deaths remains mysterious to this day, the Mayerling affair has been pawed at by sensation mongers for two generations. In The Masque...
...Scotland was struggling to preserve its Presbyterianism, establish free trade with the English colonies, seat her peers in the House of Lords. But in a lonely castle on Maxwelton's hillside the year's real problem was a pretty, dark-eyed girl who fancied she loved a rakish soldier. The girl was Annie Laurie. The soldier, one Willie Douglas of Fingland, wrote verses to her, offered to lay himself "doon an' dee." Annie Laurie's parents locked her in her stone-walled bedroom until she stopped her mooning, sadly consented to marry respectable Alexander Fergusson...