Word: stylishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plug. In Guatemala City, enthusiastic over the Health Ministry's four new hearses, one daily newspaper gushed: "So elegant, so stylish, so luxurious, like an invitation...
Paris was as gay as ever. The dressy set had recovered from the Four Seasons Ball, and was studying pictorial evidence of the shindig's stylish fauna & flora: Britain's Lady Diana Duff Cooper, wife of the former ambassador to France, as a sad unicorn; Couturier Jacques Fath and Mme. Fath as tame tiger and roe, and Schiaparelli, in something she had run up herself as a carefree radish...
...20th Century-Fox) features a group of talented actors pretending unsuccessfully to be characters in a play by Oscar Wilde. At its original best, 57 years ago, Lady Windermere's Fan was little more than a stylish vehicle for Wilde's wicked quips and epigrams. At its 20th Century movie worst, it emerges as a sentimental woman's drama-a sort of Stella Dallas in turn-of-the-century stays...
...last week. The telephone in his double suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel was kept ringing by cinema celebrities eager to entertain him. The evening he arrived, he dined with Ingrid Bergman (he expects to sign her up for his next picture). The next night there was a small, stylish dinner given by Writer-Director Billy Wilder. One morning David O. Selznick called...
...song score for the new musical gleams with the gilt-edged Porter signet. The author of You're the Top-which inspired a sort of national cult of memorizers and parodists in 1934-always turns out lyrics that are distinctly his own. They brim with stylish grace and colloquial impudence, real comic invention, multisyllabic rhymes, innuendoes about I'amour, digs at social foibles, and easy allusions to famous people and far-off places...