Word: rakishness
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...photographic work. But at the Fokker plant in Teterboro, N. J. a plane nearly identical was being completed with the utmost secrecy. Reporter Bruce Gould of the New York Evening Post, who inadvertently happened upon it while on another mission, reported it to be "[a] pursuit-bomber . . . long nosed . . . rakish . . . bristling with armament;" its two bulging engines giving it a "frightful deep-sea monster expression...
Seventy-nine years ago an unlovely $500 flagon with no particular name was to be competed for by 14 vessels of the Royal Yacht Squadron in a free-for-all race off Cowes. America, a rakish Yankee upstart which had crossed the Atlantic with the idea of bullying Englishmen into match races and making its owners some money, was grudgingly permitted to compete. When America came leaning down toward the finish line Queen Victoria asked her signalman who was second. "Your Majesty," he said, "there aren't no second...
About Washington he motors in rakish automobiles behind uniformed chauffeurs. With his crony Senator Reed he makes many a journey down the Potomac for fishing, duck-shooting, in a speedboat they own jointly. He smokes pipes and cigarets, chews tobacco. Cards he plays with hard, businesslike skill. He belongs to six clubs in Denver, four in New York, four in Washington...
...second Mrs. Amadio. That, declared Dean Ede, the Church of England could not condone, contract or no contract. Indignantly Husband Amadio protested. His pleasant, big-chested wife had done much for the Church in charity concerts, festivals, bazaars. Her hobbies of reading, needlework, cooking, hardly suggested a rakish character. As for himself he said: "I was married, but legally separated from my wife. I was unhappy and without comfort. I loved Miss Austral and she loved me and we still love one another. We decided then that we must go through everything in the recognized legal way. I was divorced...
...floats laughably about the stage, an hilarious Zeppelin brightened with a Mazda smile. "How is my dear old mother tonight?" someone asks her. "Lousy," she replies. Fred Keating, a magician by trade, stuffs birds down his shirt front in a highly invisible manner while acting as master of the rakish ceremonies. Noel Coward, Peter Arno, John McGowan and most admirably Rube Goldberg are implicated in suitable capacities, as is the author of a song called, "I May be Wrong." Credit for the rest of the Almanac's sophisticated virtues should be laid to John Murray Anderson, its organizer...