Word: viveur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Cunarder Berengaria warped up to her pier at Manhattan last week, pressmen surrounded that jovial former pressman, that internationally popular bon viveur, the returning U. S. Ambassador to Spain, Alexander Pollock Moore. When Mr. Moore departed for Spain he was perhaps best known as widower of Lillian Russell. He had not been in Spain six months, however, when it was reported that he habitually addressed el Rey Alfonso as "Chief" and the Duke of Alba as "Jimmy...
...telephone rang. Over the wire came the voice of the reporter, telling how he had been refused entrance to the Del Fey Club; how Thaw sat within, busy with his tiddling, all unseen by the press. "I'll come down myself," snapped Mr. Payne. He, 33, a viveur himself in a controlled fashion, is a member of the Club. His face - curly-mouthed, snub-nosed, the face of a bespectacled Puck-is well known to "Texas" Guinan, famed proprietress. Also, it is known, most unpleasantly known, to Harry K. Thaw. That is why the other patrons of the club...
When that aged Pittsburgh viveur, Harry K. Thaw, feeling in his veins the thrill of a new spring, went to Manhattan and began to conduct himself in a manner that ill benefitted his grey hairs (TIME, Sept. 28), the New York Daily Mirror "crusaded" against him, asking, "Why is a rich lunatic a free lunatic?" Some of the Mirror's chicle-masticating readers may have thought it a breach of taste, a blatancy, to make so much of the fact that an old rake wanted to chuck a dancing girl under the chin. Little did these readers know...