Word: roguish
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...Oyly Carte productions are still impeccably starched and smooth. The D'Oyly Carters are roguish, but they are expertly roguish. There were rumbles once over Martyn Green's unbridled, wall-climbing Ko-Ko; today, roars of sanctified laughter greet his agile footwork and fanwork...
...were in for a hard summer. With lessons learned, friends lopped off, girdle smoothed down, and a misleading air of roguish innocence, Miss Carlyle's eager lovelies were already ranging the world-perhaps in the next deck chair...
...Paris' oldest and one of its best-written newspapers, Le Figaro, which was named and modeled after Beaumarchais' roguish hero, has spent much time heckling the opposition in its 124 years. Because Le Figaro is the chief spokesman for the Roman Catholic middle class (it considers itself "further left than right-wing papers, and further right than left-wing papers"), its major, opposition now is Communism-not only in Moscow but in its own backyard...
...towering, well-tailored hodcarrier with a roguish black mustache clambered into the witness chair in a San Francisco federal courtroom last week, thumbed his red suspenders and settled back for a long stay. John Schomaker, former Communist, was Witness No.1 in the case of the U.S. v. Harry Bridges...
...frankly slapstick. But Montgomery isn't a hammy drunk, nor is he an actor pretending to be drunk; he manages to get drunk in a delightfully individual and convincing way. And in his sober moments, he's always in complete command of his part, that of a flippant and roguish magazine writer...