Word: roguish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willie in his roguish way Tipped Grandpa on the fire one day. Mother said "My dear that's cruel! But of course it does save fuel...
...shapely brown shoulders and a round, roguish face, framed in a triangle of white light, showed above the grand piano's shining ebony. From the keyboard Chopin's Minute Waltz flowed fleetly, ripplingly. For a while it surged along according to Chopin. Then watchers saw an impish flicker of a smile, an insinuating movement of a shoulder. Came the first suggestion of a hot lick; another, and another. Then Hazel Scott began to "break it down," and was off in a wild mélange of pianistics, sweet, hot, Beethoven and Count Basic...
Victoria's Heir, a life of Edward VII, is almost worthy to be a sequel to Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria, for the stuffy, portentous Victorian age seems peculiarly able to inspire some of the best writing of the 20th Century. The late Lytton Strachey's roguish mandarinism seemed gently but fatally borne along on the undertow of a dying civilization. George Dangerfield writes with the desperate blandness of a man who has heard even in the U.S. (where he has resided since 1931) the thud of London's falling walls and the stridency of gutting...
...Eddy, with much flashing of strong, white teeth, much glancing of roguish eyes, sang his audience into rapture. Few cared whether his velvety, beautifully controlled voice molded a phrase with real musicianship-as it often did-or turned a cheap song into a Hollywood production -as it more often did. When the pounding of feminine palm on palm had at last subsided, Mr. Eddy slipped away through a secret exit. At his hotel he had no more than made the elevator, on the run, when two panting women in evening dress rushed in, demanded his room number...