Word: roguish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...directors of the association. They knew that their fellow members understand as well as any merchants in the U. S. the meaning of that fine phrase, and the dry-goods men, as is their wont, responded heartily. Many were the delighted slaps and winks, the chewed cigars, the roguish stories passed from lip to lip amid shouts of, "Brother, you surely made a sale with that one" . . . "Let me tell you a red-hot one" . . . "Now down south they say" . . . "The one about the man with a harelip and the woman with St. Vitus' dance. . . ." It is true that among...
However, while it is comparatively easy to decide what the play is not, it is not so easy to determine just what it is. The author himself is characteristically vague about it. "For some a comedy" he says, one imagines with a roguish twinkle, "and for others a drama." Or, as Shakespeare said it with much subtler whimsicality, "as you like it." "I don't care whether you laugh or weep", says the "enfant terrible" of the Russian Theatre, "as long as I have succeeded in arousing your interest, in stimulating your curiosity, in helping you while away...
...rare words and colors. In her new book, to be called perhaps A Venetian Glass Nephew, she dwells partly in a realm of magic. She has made scholarly investigations so that her descriptions of the black art are accurately in tradition. She chooses as one of her characters the roguish Casanova?a background character only, I believe...
Ramon Navarro in the title role is more roguish than ever before. One is grateful for the absence of "Sheikery." While the Arab's desert-tribe does gallop across the hot sands to the rescue of the Mission at the crucial moment, Rex Ingram has not handled this in the absurd way which often causes the spectators to reach for their hats and march...
Ruddy, jolly, plump, energetic, roguish, confidential?these are some of the adjectives with which Wells sketches Sanderson's surface character and mannerisms. Exceptionally bold, creative, emancipated, with a "mind like at octopus," perpetually growing, leaving others behind, a "rock-climber";? these are the outlines of the mental picture...