People saw uncouth and thought unconventional; they saw raffish and thought rebel.
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Mr. Sanders was long associated with a raffish antiwar party called Liberty Union.
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In the tabloids, he continued to play the part of the raffish bad boy.
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Most fans agree that a raffish spirit is one of Panjiayuan's most appealing features.
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But they were far from the only associates with a penchant for spinning raffish yarns.
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Her raffish Midwestern look contrasted bracingly with the restrictively tailored, often corseted look of her time.
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Swallow your doubts: There's conviction in everything he plays, and often a sense of raffish provocation.
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It's an elegantly fragmented revival of Analytical Cubism infected with the raffish nonchalance of early Robert Rauschenberg.
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They were Buruma's charons into a raffish world of erotic cabarets and sex shows and carnival acts.
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Mr. Cassel's entourage — publicist, agent, raffish assortment of chums — stayed, for the most part, out of sight.
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There is nothing earth-mothery about Vedge's raffish oak interior, nothing to suggest that excessive wellness is afoot.
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Hinckley, who is twenty-nine, had a blond cascade of hair, round glasses, and a short, raffish beard.
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By all accounts, Winston Churchill's wife, Clementine, found the company at the Château de l'Horizon raffish and vulgar.
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From an early age, Mr. Trump encountered these raffish types with their unscrupulous methods, unsavory connections and uncertain loyalties.
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The raffish, action-hero police detective trope of the '80s made for great TV and film; it's just not accurate.
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No one mistook it for the real thing, but it did lend him a raffish Sammy Davis Jr.-like charm.
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Mr. Johnson is famous for his shambling manner, a raffish untidiness that extends from his clothes to his personal life.
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He looks rather raffish in his worn-out yellow-checked suit, gentian blue shirt, red-striped tie, and rolled-up trousers.
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Gradually, the property is sanitised, and with that its unique freewheeling charm, like the raffish heart of their marriage, is stripped away.
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"It's A to B-ism," said Mikael Colville-Andersen, a raffish bicycle evangelist who preaches the gospel of Copenhagen to other cities.
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The teenage boys have a believably nerdy-raffish rapport And Samantha Akkineni, as the cheating wife, builds a character of unexpected depths.
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He is, in many ways, the last of his kind—the raffish, roguish, eccentric Brit who conquered worlds and created his own legacy.
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But the effort was shouted down: New Yorkers didn't want to let go of this reminder of an older, wilder, more raffish town.
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Its forward pitch seems to push the more raffish, improvisational works into the corners and up the walls, where they heave, bristle, and regroup.
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This British singer's 2008 major-label debut is best known for its smash hit "American Boy," which features Kanye West as her raffish suitor.
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Jack Bannon, who played the genial and raffish assistant city editor Art Donovan on the long-running television series "Lou Grant," died on Oct.
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Mr. Green also composed the melancholy bluegrass-tinged music (performed by him, Catherine McRae and Kate Ryan) that accompanies Mr. Findlay's raffish, ruminative guided tour.
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Kerry Washington also opted for a starch-free style, her hair falling from a back-combed mound at her crown and clasped into a raffish ponytail.
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Movie stars are always movie stars, whether they're blocking a scene, taking direction, getting their makeup done or enjoying a regal or raffish smoke between takes.
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Where one sitter is stiff, directing a staid gaze out at the viewer, another is raffish, sprawled on an armchair with tobacco pipe at a studiedly jaunty angle.
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Today's Benjamin is upstanding in a raffish fawn corduroy suit and sleek black pullover, and with his much-written-about (though, frankly magnificent) cheekbones he cuts a dash.
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Four years later, it spawned a more famous and raffish London offspring that sold over 260,22013 copies at its peak and became a paradigm of the underground magazine.
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She and Mr. Pine, who has Paul Newman's seductive blue eyes and a hint of Clark Gable's raffish charm, give "Wonder Woman" a jolt of classic Hollywood fizz.
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He married his first wife, Bertha Riestra in 1961, but the raffish, handsome Cuevas earned a reputation as a ladies' man, claiming to have had hundreds of sexual encounters.
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It is an unruly, benign kind of agriculture, and making a living by it has such a wild, anarchistic, raffish appeal that it unsuits me for virtually any other.
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The partners had poured years and millions into transforming the indoor-outdoor space, which since the 1980s had been occupied by a raffish British-style pub, the Cat and Fiddle.
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Sean Marks, the general manager, somehow turned a collection of mostly indifferent veterans into a raffish crew of young, hungry players led by a first-time head coach, Kenny Atkinson.
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Meanwhile, outside his party headquarters in the raffish neighborhood of the Gare du Nord in Paris, an enraged Mr. Mélenchon, the France Unbowed chief, got right down Tuesday to blasting Mr. Castaner.
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Kyle decides to work with Frank rather than turn him in, and "Training Day" loses its nerve in the process, turning Frank into a raffish renegade who just says what everybody's thinking.
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Title notwithstanding, and no matter Amalric's raffish magic, the most resonant — and haunting — scenes in the film are those shared by the two women, every word and glance between them truly combustible.
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While lacking the raffish charisma of past Louisiana governors — friends describe him as earnest and no-nonsense — he is well liked by many Republicans, and respected, particularly for his record of military service.
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Playing a raffish aesthete punch-drunk both on language and, yes, drink, Mr. McKellen allows his Spooner the occasional sly smile when he has let rip with an especially spry turn of phrase.
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His 220-strong entourage was packed with khaki-clad ex-guerrillas, whose raffish facial hair had become such a powerful symbol in Cuba that they were known simply as "los barbudos" ("the bearded ones").
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It's unclear what the writer-director Robert Budreau thinks of it, although given the attention he bestows on Lars — in camera love and in the dialogue — he seems to think raffish charisma explains a lot.
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His dignity and his burdens would be plain to see, but perhaps also a certain raffish quality — the lively brown eyes of a man who has found his way through adversity with wit and wiles.
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A pair of tartan-patterned pole dance pumps, a tiny pleated schoolgirl skirt and a leather merry widow — they emerged one by one from a nondescript cardboard carton, the raffish trappings of the sex trade.
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And here's the interesting thing: There are a lot of things in Mr. Trump that he didn't like in Mr. Clinton — this raffish, undisciplined, morally suspect figure who in his view disgraced the Oval Office.
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Dave Arnold, an owner of the recently closed Booker and Dax, has a taste for the raffish, gravitating toward Holland Bar, a dive in Hell's Kitchen, and Old Absinthe House, an ancient saloon in New Orleans.
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" But Jack Engle and the other raffish young male characters, Mr. Reynolds said, are reminiscent of the man-of-the-streets persona — "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs" — he created with "Leaves of Grass.
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Mr. Nikas countered Tuesday that many of the artists belonged to a raffish, disorderly group, who drank and even sometimes fought inside the Cedar Tavern in Manhattan, and may not have kept track of their own work.
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Christopher Gibbs, an erudite London antiques dealer and dandy who introduced the raffish "distressed bohemian" style to interior design and helped start the Peacock Revolution in men's wear, died early Sunday at his home in Tangier, Morocco.
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Chances are Nadia would deck herself out in some variation of her rock 'n' roll tomboy look, the raffish composite of tweed boy coat, black blazer, tie blouse and skinny jeans she wears to her job every day.
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He pounds the turf in Tarbaby, a caustically experimental trio; on a more traditional jazz gig, he's liable to break out in gospel-like singing; and soon he'll join the Bad Plus, that band of raffish jazz-pop instigators.
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The paper cited his comfortability with shady businessmen and mob-backed public officials ("raffish types with their unscrupulous methods," like his McCarthyite mob lawyer Roy Cohn), and called attention to the time he defended Paul Manafort by referencing Al Capone.
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"If you kick an angry dog, he'll bite you and he won't let go," said Alain Giménez, a community leader, as others who had gathered in the raffish Place du Puig, or "Hill Square" in the local Catalan, nodded their assent.
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Interpretations of the raffish look made for colorful accents at Telfar; they were rendered sporty at Norma Kamali, the designer teaming them with streamlined athletic looks; and at Gypsy Sport, they took on a brooding tone, laced corset-like clear to the elbow.
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Her clothing label, Imitation of Christ, founded with Matt Damhave in 2000, with Chloë Sevigny as creative director, was a raffish hybrid of performance art and fashion show, a collection of upcycled vintage clothes that was in its way a precursor to the sustainability movement.
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The book moves from Johnny's experiences in raffish 1970s London to the city's turn-of-the-millennium rave scene to his social life after the arrival of dating apps like Grindr, which turn out to be a boon for old as well as young men.
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Mr. Bataan was a kind of Bruno Mars of his day (the 1960s and '70s); a self-taught vocalist and pianist, he pulled together the most hummable elements of soul, salsa and doo-wop, balancing a raffish bad-boy appeal with a stubbornly endearing sweetness.
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It's not nearly as rough and raffish, but he has adjusted well, according to his wife, Lynne Halliday, a performer and playwright who met Mr. Barry when she took one of his classes in stage combat at the Circle in the Square training workshop.
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PARIS — The designer Stefano Pilati, revered in certain fashion circles both for his designs (for Yves Saint Laurent and Ermenegildo Zegna Couture) and for the raffish elegance of his own personal style, is currently professionally unattached and living, somewhat east of any fashion world surveillance, in Germany.
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There are animals, too, gamboling in the park — the indolent elephant with a parasol, the raffish bunny in a boater, a family of giraffes — all of it a gloss on the uptown social scene, whimsical, charming, with a tiny spritz of irony, like the Vermouth in your gin.
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On a cool, damp late morning in February, my wife and I walked the mile from the downtown Union Square area to the store, which sits near the border of Chinatown and its raffish North Beach neighborhood, and is within a stone's throw of more than one faded, gloomy topless joint.
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The closest to Shore, in a cohort that includes Joel Meyerowitz, Joel Sternfeld, and Richard Misrach, is his friend William Eggleston, the raffish Southern aristocrat who has made pictures unbeatably intense and iconic: epiphanies triggered by the hues and textures of a stranded tricycle, say, or of a faded billboard in a scrubby field.
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As we ponder the news that Prince Harry, the raffish younger son of the future king of England, has become engaged to Meghan Markle — an American actress who, like nearly everyone in this story so far (except Harry) is divorced — it is worth noting how dramatically Britain and the royal family have changed in the intervening years.
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The British public trudges back to the polls today for the third general election in five years, with the country on the brink of its most radical transition since the end of World War II. At such a deeply divided moment, it's perhaps fitting that the leaders of Britain's two main political parties are polar opposites: Boris Johnson is a raffish, Eton-educated prime minister with quicksilver political instincts and a blunt-force campaign message, Mark Landler, our London bureau chief, writes.
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When Doorson was six years old, she won a playback show. In 2004 she was in a girl band, called Raffish (with Eva Simons). Raffish had a No. 1 hit in the Netherlands. The girlband separated ways in 2006, because all the girls wanted to go solo.
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In its heyday, the Review enjoyed a reputation as an obtuse and nearly unreadable but authoritative publication put together by a sometimes raffish staff.
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Reviewing the book, Lionel Hale wrote, "The vivacity of this raffish chronicle is unflagging."Hale, Lionel. "New Novels", The Observer, 11 June 1950, p. 7 Collaborations with S J Simon 1937 A Bullet in the Ballet.
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Frances Trollope described the playhouse in no uncertain terms: Nevertheless, Mrs Trollope's description reveals that the theatre may not have been as raffish as its reputation made it sound. The presence of a nursing mother suggests that the theatre was lower-class, certainly, but also family- oriented.
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Buchanan's image was that of the raffish eternal bachelor, but he was, unknown to most, married to Saffo Arnau in 1915. She was a singer. This marriage was annulled in 1920. Later in life, he married Susan Bassett, an American, in 1947; he was her second husband.
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" Maurice Richardson in The Observer of 15 November 1964 began, "A most encouraging return to somewhere very near her best unputdownable form. ... Suspicion nicely distributed among guests, many of them raffish adulterers. Not very hard to guess, but quite suspenseful. Good varied characterisation including a particularly excellent octogenarian tycoon.
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She had, in short, all the qualities of an excellent agent except one: She did not want the job. Her friends knew nothing of her Lubyanka affiliation. But she knew which of them would be arrested and when. Many people found Natalia's manner pleasingly raffish; she dressed in men's jackets and leggins.
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Mary Beard, an only child, was born on 1 January 1955 in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Her mother, Joyce Emily Beard, was a headmistress and an enthusiastic reader. Her father, Roy Whitbread Beard, worked as an architect in Shrewsbury. She recalled him as "a raffish public-schoolboy type and a complete wastrel, but very engaging".
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From the 1880s the term "Marlborough Set" came into usage to denote the Prince of Wales's fast living social circle, which included gamblers, bankers, and other "raffish" individuals.Stourton, 2012; p.36 After his father moved to Buckingham Palace in 1901, George V took up residence with his wife Mary of Teck and their children.
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Cartwheel, and usually lost in her dreaming. ;Peron Spitzer: Joachim's identical twin brother, athletic, raffish, gambles on cards and horses, a suicide after he lost the Spitzer inheritance. Mrs. Cartwheel was sweet on him. After Peron's death, Joachim was often uncertain whether he was the one who died, or whether he was really Peron.
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In 1946 Beaverbrook handed the Diary to Tudor Jenkins, who did much to shape the column's short, informative style. "No fine writing please", he would instruct his staff at the Standard's "raffish and noisy" offices off Fleet Street. His stance created a section that was "sometimes unreliable, occasionally incomprehensible, but always lively".Smith, Bedell, Reflected Glory.
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The best of Cramphorn's theatre productions were said to be the equal of any Grotowski production; in others it was evident that Cramphorn seemed to demand almost as much of his audience as he did of his players.Louis Nowra, in Maxwell, Ian (Ed.), Raffish Experiment, A, 2009, p 335 In a 1973 interview, Cramphorn described the kind of productions he hoped to create: - As a theatre critic during the early 1970s, Cramphorn contributed 110 theatre reviews to several newspapers.Ian Maxwell,(ed.) Raffish Experiment, A, 2009 In these forthright, uncompromising and scholarly reviews, Cramphorn indicated initially that there was little that pleased him in the Sydney theatre scene, a view summarised by his metaphor ‘a withering mistletoe on our gum-tree culture’.Rex Cramphorn, The Bulletin, 3 January 1970 He hailed, however, the emergence of new talents such at Louis Nowra and John Bell.
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Scene one: In the herbal garden outside the Halls's residence, raffish medical student Jack Lane and pious haberdasher Rafe Smith discuss the visit of the local bishop. As the bishop and his entourage emerge Susanna gives him a herbal tonic. Smith dislikes having to bow to the bishop, but does so out of politeness. John explains the medical use of herbs to the bishop.
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Storytelling in the Pulps, Comics, and Radio: How Technology Changed Popular Fiction in America. McFarland, 2004. With the introduction in 1929 of the raffish soldier of fortune, Captain Easy, Crane heightened the spirit of adventure and later created a Sunday strip focusing on Captain Easy. NBM Publishing's Flying Buttress Classics Library reprinted the complete run of Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy in a series of 18 volumes.
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Tom leaves home again to spend time with his friends at Weymouth. Weymouth had become one of the first modern tourist destinations and had been made popular by the royal family and their hangers-on. It had a reputation as a raffish seaside resort and is the offstage backdrop for Tom Bertram’s disastrous meeting with John Yates, who later elopes with Tom’s sister, Julia.Byrne (2013) ch.
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There are many other background characters that live in the nearby forest land; The bears live among the forest and nature just as they did in the television specials. The main antagonists of the series are the swindler Raffish Ralph and occasionally Weasel McGreed, seen in six episodes. To a lesser extent, Too Tall Grizzly is another antagonist, again serving as the school bully.
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The musical is set in a corrupt world inhabited by rakish mobsters and their double crossing gangs, raffish madams and their dissolute whores, panhandlers and street people as they conduct their dirty business, ply their trade, and struggle to survive in brothels, shanty towns, and prisons. The plot focuses on the exploits of MacHeath, a suave New York mobster, his three women, and their various trials and tribulations with the law.
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She was still to finish her solo album as of 2003, but her album was never released due to some unresolved issues with her recording company. She was also the face of Italian clothing company Freesoul. She also appeared in a 6-page feature in FHM, making the 'Girls of Summer' Special edition 2001. Songwriting and composition She then went on to write a number one single for the girl band Raffish with "Plaything".
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The chords taper up toward a square section in the center of the span, which is topped by four finials. On the Manhattan side, there is a plaque stating the year 1894, the words "Central Bridge", and the name of the bridge's major engineers. The design has been compared to a "raffish tiara" due to the presence of the Gothic Revival-style abutments. The span is located between two pairs of stone end piers with shelter houses.
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While having a quiet drink together in a road house, a young working-class couple Fred and Nancy fall into the company of two raffish motorists including the self-confident Captain Cole. After a game of billiards and a number of drinks, they drive out on the road. While spreeding along in the dark they hit what they think to be a man on a bicycle. Although Fred wants to stop, Captain Cole insists on driving on.
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He meddled in an imaginative, often raffish or coquettish, and always elegant depictions of dramas in elegant period costume occurring in equally ornamented interiors. The paintings proved popular in England and France, and Vinea gained a comfortable living. His studio on boulevard Prince Eugene in Florence is depicted as hoard of exotic items, and eclectic furniture and decorative items: a collection easily finding his way as ornaments of his paintings. Gubernatis describes his studio as his best work of art.
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In 1934 after the death of her father, Madeleine, a proper and repressed well-off housewife, invites her free-spirited sister, Dinah, to stay with her and her husband Rickie in her elegant London home. The couple have a young son, Anthony. Madeleine has always been secretly jealous and resentful of Dinah, a raffish bohemian painter, who is the despair of her conservative sister and their mother, Mrs. Burkett. Madeleine at last contrives to get Dinah engaged to a respectable, well-off man.
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Toynbee was later to be found, with Benedict Nicolson, in the Wednesday Club consisting of raffish male writers, artists and journalists.Claire Harman "BOOK REVIEW: Ten years of lunching: 'In the Fifties' by Peter Vansittart", Independent on Sunday, 18 June 1995 In 1945 they moved to the Isle of Wight, for a fresh start. They had two children, the second being Mary Louisa, better known as the journalist Polly Toynbee. Anne later married Richard Wollheim shortly after divorcing Philip in 1950.
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The bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), also called the square flipper seal, is a medium-sized pinniped that is found in and near to the Arctic Ocean. It gets its generic name from two Greek words (eri and gnathos) that refer to its heavy jaw. The other part of its Linnaean name means bearded and refers to its most characteristic feature, the conspicuous and very abundant whiskers. When dry, these whiskers curl very elegantly, giving the bearded seal a "raffish" look.
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Adding to his look were a "monocle, raffish waistcoat and red carnation". He later wrote that "sartorially I was an eccentric. But I knew that underneath the clothes I was very much a conservative Englishman who would have loved to have been a genuine eccentric". In 1937 Terry-Thomas met the South African dancer and choreographer Ida Florence Patlansky, who went by the stage-name Pat Patlanski, while she was auditioning in London for a partner for her flamenco dancing act.
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All three books are considered mannerpunk novels, and take place in a nameless imaginary capital city and its raffish district of Riverside, where swordsmen- for-hire ply their trade. From 2011 to 2014 audiobook versions of all three novels were produced under the label of Neil Gaiman Presents. The Swordspoint adaptation won the 2013 Audie Award for Best Audio Drama, an Earphones Award from AudioFile, and the 2013 Communicator Award: Gold Award of Excellence (Audio). The adaptation of The Fall of the Kings won the 2014 Wilbur Award.
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Fox dropped Clark following that picture, and his roles in the following years were often in lower-budget films. Clark's most prominent role in American film came in 1958, when he was cast as Stewpot in South Pacific, an adaptation of the Broadway musical. His vocals were dubbed by Thurl Ravenscroft. Following the film’s premiere, the New York Times described Clark’s character as a “raffish gob.” During this period, Clark made many guest star appearances on a variety of American TV shows, including four appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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Littlewit and his friends also plan to go to the fair to see a puppet-show Littlewit wrote. To overcome Busy's likely objections, they pretend that Win (Littlewit's wife) has a pregnant craving for roast pork. The Renaissance audience, familiar with stage satire of Puritans, would not have been surprised that Busy, far from abhorring the fair and its debauchery, is ready to rationalise his presence there as allowable and even godly. The first act ends with both groups, the genteel Overdos and the raffish Littlewits, headed for the fair.
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The film received positive reviews, but several critics thought it could have been better. Roger Ebert wrote that "'Bingo Long' is fun, it's pleasant to watch, but it cakewalks too much on its way to the box office." Jay Cocks agreed in his Time magazine review, stating "Although it never fulfills the richest possibilities in the raffish misadventures of a barnstorming black baseball team of the 1930s, it does come close from time to time." The movie holds an 87% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 15 critics.
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Pioneer Race Course 1853, the grandstands shown were located just south of 24th and Shotwell St. Ranchos owned by Spanish-Mexican families such as the Valenciano, Guerrero, Dolores, Bernal, Noé and De Haro continued in the area, separated from the town of Yerba Buena, later renamed San Francisco (centered around Portsmouth Square) by a two-mile wooden plank road (later paved and renamed Mission Street). The lands around the nearly abandoned mission church became a focal point of raffish attractionsVia magazine, April 2003. Viamagazine.com (July 23, 2010). including bull and bear fighting, horse racing, baseball and dueling.
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Of course, these people live in a raffish, theatrical, bohemian society where no one really knows anyone and everyone is "darling"".Harold Macmillan, diary, 22 March 1963, quoted in Alistair Horne (1989) Harold Macmillan 1957–1986; Charles Williams (2009) Harold Macmillan Post-war Paris was recalled fondly in 2007 when France introduced a ban on smoking in public places. The aroma of Gauloises and Gitanes was, for many years, thought to be an inseparable feature of Parisian café society, but the owner of Les Deux Magots, once frequented by Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus and other writers, observed that "things have changed.
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Damjan Kozole in 2012 Damjan Kozole (born 1964 in Brežice, Slovenia) is a Slovenian filmmaker whose directing credits include the 2003 critically acclaimed Spare Parts and 2009 worldwide released Slovenian Girl, among others. Spare parts was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival; in 2008 Sight & Sound ranked this film among the ten most important films of the New Europe. In 2012 Kozole received Lifetime Achievement Award at the Rome Film Festival. In his films, "some of the most raffish, funky and even sordid characters discover their own humanity" (Alissa Simon, Variety).
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Owen Hatteras, however, could be freely raffish and acerbic. He attacked religion, marriage, morals, manners, capitalism—staples of American life. These American tropes came to be identified by Mencken as “Puritanism,” stripped of the Calvinist implications and loaded with the dated and passé mores instilled by the early American Puritans. Though Hatteras preceded Willard Huntington Wright's editorship, Wright used Hatteras as one supply of the “truth” Wright promised his readers: real characters and people who complicated America's idea of morality and virtue. When Mencken and Nathan needed to defend themselves against accusations of being communist supporters, contrarily “accused...of being both agents of the Kaiser and the Bolsheviks,”Curtiss, Thomas Quinn.
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Both estates have aristocratic antecedents and are still run by members of the aforementioned families. The Howard de Walden Estate owns, leases and manages the majority of the of real estate in Marylebone which comprises the area from Marylebone High Street in the west to Robert Adam's Portland Place in the east and from Wigmore Street in the south to Marylebone Road in the north.The Howard de Walden Estate In the 18th century the area was known for the raffish entertainments in Marylebone Gardens, the scene of bear-baiting and prize fights by members of both sexes, and for the duelling grounds in Marylebone Fields.Wheatley and Cunningham, p. 511.
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Drummond "is a skillful writer who handles prose well", says Carol Simpson Stern in St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery. Her novels, set in London, Durban, or imaginary places, range from Junta, a political novel about apartheid, to a series of novels such as The People in Glass House that seem descended from Gothic horror stories. They may involve "...half-mad women, mistaken identities, bitter rivalries among kin, men of raffish ways, and women moon-goddesses who destroy those near them...". Less pleasing to Stern in some of Drummond's work are what she regards as thinly developed characters, stock situations, and a tendency to moralize.
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He and his family were descended in the male line from Edward III of England; the first Somerset was a legitimised son of Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, whose grandfather was a legitimized son of John of Gaunt. By the time he succeeded as Duke he was therefore considered the senior representative of the House of Plantagenet, through a legitimised line.The Duke of Beaufort Landowner and chairman of Marlborough Fine Art, known for his raffish reputation and frequent conflicts with hunt saboteurs (0bituary) in The Times dated 17 August 2017, online at thetimes.co.uk, accessed 5 February 2018 (subscription site) Somerset's father was the heir presumptive to the Dukedom of Beaufort and the large estates attached to it.
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After his years in the British Army, Somerset took up residence in Gloucestershire, hunted with the Beaufort Hunt, and following his father's death in 1965 it was increasingly certain that he or one of his sons would be the next Duke of Beaufort. He finally succeeded to the family titles and estates in 1984. As Duke of Beaufort, he was a major landowner and figure in the world of fox hunting, and he became well known for a raffish reputation and also for frequent conflicts with hunt saboteurs. He held the office of Hereditary Keeper of Raglan Castle, was President of the British Horse Society between 1988 and 1990, and was chairman of Marlborough Fine Art.
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The process of assimilation has been a common theme of popular culture. For example, "lace-curtain Irish" refers to middle-class Irish Americans desiring assimilation into mainstream society in counterpoint to the older, more raffish "shanty Irish". The occasional malapropisms and left-footed social blunders of these upward mobiles were gleefully lampooned in vaudeville, popular song, and the comic strips of the day such as Bringing Up Father, starring Maggie and Jiggs, which ran in daily newspapers for 87 years (1913 to 2000). In The Departed (2006), Staff Sergeant Dignam regularly points out the dichotomy between the lace curtain Irish lifestyle Billy Costigan enjoyed with his mother, and the shanty Irish lifestyle of Costigan's father.
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In the United States, the wheel style was manufactured in Lansing, Michigan, by the Motor Wheel CorporationMustang Classics, Publications International Ltd and found fame in the 1960s and 1970s on Muscle cars like the Pontiac GTO, Ford Torino, Shelby Mustang, Plymouth Barracuda and AMC Javelin. In an American context the wheel style was known as the "Magnum 500". Hence, the first British cars with "Rostyle" wheels were referred to in early road tests as having "Magnum style" wheels. The first appearance of Rostyle wheels on the Rover P5B met with descriptions of them by some testers as "raffish" and "gaudy" Rover 3 & 3.5 litre 1958 - 1973, a selection of contemporary road tests, Brooklands Books and ill-befitting a luxury saloon.
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Joseph Mitchell was born in North Carolina, yet throughout the majority of his writing career he centred his writing around New York City and its subjects. He brought a distinct and unique style of reporting to NYC that stemmed from his Southern upbringing. Mitchell was said to have brought the ultimate Southern courtesy of accepting “people on their own terms”. Although he was a Brooklyn police reporter at first, by the time he moved to work in Harlem he began to connect with the “raffish side” of the NYC borough and it was here that his deep affection for NYC and its people started to blossom. Scholars claim that Mitchell's 1959 collection entitled The Bottom of the Harbor is his best and most “elegiac account of New York”.
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" According to Richard J. Evans, Eckart, the "failed racist poet and dramatist" blamed his career's failure on Jewish domination of German culture, and defined as "Jewish" anything that was subversive or materialistic. Joachim C. Fest describes Eckart as a "roughhewn and comical figure, with [a] thick round head, [and a] partiality for good wine and crude talk" with a "bluff and uncomplicated manner". His revolutionary goals were to promote "true socialism" and rid the country of "interest slavery". According to Thomas Weber, Eckart had a "jovial but moody nature" and a "walruslike face", while John Toland describes him as "an original raffish man with a touch of genius", and "a tall, bald, burly eccentric who spent much of his time in cafes and beer halls giving equal attention to drink and talk.
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His constant attempts to sneak out with his old gang of boisterous, rough-edged pals, eat corned beef and cabbage (known regionally as "Jiggs dinner") and hang out at the local tavern were often thwarted by his formidable, social-climbing (and rolling-pin wielding) harridan of a wife, Maggie, their lovely young daughter, Nora, and infrequently their lazy son, Ethelbert, later known as just Sonny. Also a character presented in the strip (portrayed as a miserly borrower) was named fittingly Titus Canby. The strip deals with "lace-curtain Irish", with Maggie as the middle-class Irish American desiring assimilation into mainstream society in counterpoint to an older, more raffish "shanty Irish" sensibility represented by Jiggs. Her lofty goal—frustrated in nearly every strip—is to bring father (the lowbrow Jiggs) "up" to upper class standards, hence the title, Bringing Up Father.
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Cramphorn was born in Brisbane, Australia and attended Brisbane Boys' College. His tertiary education was at the University of New South Wales: MA in Drama, University of Queensland: BA Hons in French and English studies, graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art: 1967 (named as Cramphorne) and the Australian Film TV and Radio school. Many men and women fell for Cramphorn.David Malouf in Maxwell, Ian (ed,), Raffish Experiment, A, 2009, iiiJudith C Green, in Four Poets, Cheshire, 1962, The Boy in the Green GownJim Sharman, Blood & Tinsel: A Memoir, 2008, p 158Kate Fitzpatrick, Name Dropping, 2004, facing p 262William Yang, My Generation, Documentary Film, 2013 His capacity for empathising with actors, encyclopaedic knowledge especially of all things French, and "large pocket-Adonis" good looks Kate Fitzpatrick, Name Dropping, 2004, p 144 prompted many to seek his personal commitment.
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His nominal superior is the bank's president, Bradford Withers (married to Carrie), a socialite and dunderhead; the Chairman of the Board George Lancer has more depth, but fewer amusing scenes, serving more as a foil for his wife Lucy. Thatcher's secretary is the redoubtable Rose Theresa Corsa, who fends off interruptions from the bank officers who report to Thatcher and generally runs his working hours (and much of the rest of his life) while regarding his involvement in detective work with disapproval. His subordinates include Charlie Trinkham (raffish), Everett Gabler (severe), and Walter Bowman (corpulent and curious). The very junior trust officer Kenneth Nicolls often appears, perhaps because the first Emma Lathen novel detailed how he met his wife Jane, while subsequent books mention details of his life such as purchase of his first home, birth of a son and a daughter, and first international business trip.
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Set in 1905, the film follows the exploits of the likable but raffish Boon Hoggenbeck (Steve McQueen), who takes an interest in a new car, a new 1905 Winton Flyer that is the property of a man named Boss (Will Geer), the patriarch of the McCaslin family, who live in the Mississippi area where Boon lives. When the taking of the car first by Boon and then by Ned (Rupert Crosse) (they show themselves to be reivers, or thieves, in the film's start, hence the title) leads to a public brawl, the local magistrate lets them off by a bond that Boss pays on the condition both men stay out of trouble and far away from the car while he is away with family to attend a funeral. That is soon changed by Boon, who takes the car again to go up to Memphis to see his woman Corrie (Sharon Farrell) and talks his young friend Lucius (Mitch Vogel) into going for the ride. Ned stows away as well, but Boon grudgingly allows him to come.
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