Word: roguish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many wearers of the Green off to hotels this vacation. Hotels in Montreal, in New York, in Bermuda, in Boston, in Florida, and in Pinehurst. They will find in many of these centers of American culture and criticism an unvoiced assumption that the generic Dartmouth gentleman is a roguish, rakish, hell-bent-for-affection sort of fellow with all the manly virtues and not a few of the more virile peculation's that go to make up the finished citizen of the world. This axiom means a lot to us. There is a pleasure in it that emanates only from...
Fascinated by roguish Cinemactor Maurice Chevalier, the Women's Club of Manchester, England, last week invited him to lunch. Godfearing, they counted on the presence of dignified Dean Johnson as toastmaster to make everything all right. But at the last moment the Dean said he "must decline." Roguish Maurice and the ladies had fearful...
...produced, read, debated. Finally the Watch Committee decided that roguish Maurice may not sing in Cardiff...
...choose between going to the South Seas and remaining with his sweetheart (Frances Torchiana), both families being longtime friends. Throughout this tale of youthful self-sacrifice are interpolated visitors to the estaminet: a pompous ferryboat commander who is touchy on the subject of his wife's fidelity; the roguish, lovable saloonkeeper; able Guy Kibbee (late mortuary supply salesman of Torch Song) who is in love with Miss Torchiana. Marseilles is not a particularly strong play, but it is worth seeing...
Made In France may be considered as over-roguish, but no worse than the average biological farce. Miss De Putti's mumming, more enthusiastic than impressive, runs to posturing, comic mispronunciations, acrobatics...