At Oxford, he became a dandy and an aesthete, affecting a posture of foppishness and rather sarcastic detachment from his relatives.
As a dandy New York Times article explained, the state and its capital of Calcutta were in living memory the industrial heart of India.
He was not a dandy and just threw on his clothes, but was one of those men who would have looked elegant standing in a mudhole.
Robert Cruikshank's 1818 etching "A Dandy Fainting" caricatures a roomful of corseted young gents, presenting them as boneless alien forms akin to Aesop's grasshoppers, playing all day while the ants work.
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Mr Portillo is a rummer cove: a bit of a dandy, a bit exotic, a bit Spanish, exquisitely aware of the impression he makes on those around him, a man who since confessing to a gay past has embarked publicly on a journey of rediscovery whose destination is not yet known.
At the age of twenty-one, in 1906, Modigliani arrived in Paris as a vivacious dandy.
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"The Blue Moon Saloon, " my brother Layton and I used to say while we floated in the creek, our noses pointed pompously upward, as if only gentry frequented the establishment, though in retrospect the opposite was more probable: these days, Divide was a town of holdout ranchers, fanatical fishermen, and the occasional Unabomber, not dandy fops with a mind for parlor games.
"Trade is fine and dandy in a scenario where everybody wins, " Mr. Wallis said.
Larry and his son Phillip are the owners of Plum Dandy, a frozen yogurt shop in Saratoga Springs' historic downtown.
He dresses like a modern-day dandy, all tight black trousers, flowing scarves, black eyeliner and necklaces and his speech is excessively articulated and flowery.
Cad and Dandy is a tailor out of London with a location on Savile Row, a street famous for it numerous high-end suit shops.
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Samsung has already proven that S60 works just fine and dandy with a capacitive display on the i8910, so we're stoked to see where Nokia takes it.
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Zombies or Angry Birds might be just dandy on a touchpad, actual gamers prefer actual handheld systems, be they the PSP or Nintendo DS. Add in phone capability and you have yourself a winner.
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Nowhere are the strictures of Prohibition more freely and profitably flouted, and all is well until a new deputy sheriff named Rakes (Guy Pearce), a strutting and murderous dandy from out of town, arrives to clean the place up.
How about a purveyor of handy-dandy cellphones and other PDAs?
Not only that, but he would browse the faintly carbolic-smelling columns of the British Medical Journal, and scoff a hundred cow pies with the Dandy's Desperate Dan.
Now the Dandy can be assured of a permanent place in the record books, and one which is unlikely to be bettered.
So when I recently went to buy my first copy of The Dandy in decades - research for a story on a new exhibition at the National Library of Scotland - I was slightly thrown by its look.
The figurines of the characters - made famous by The Beano and Dandy comics - were taken along with a number of Royal Doulton pieces.
Imraan Peerzada's Zar Gul is every inch the dandy outlaw-about-town: a smoldering gaze, bouncing quiff, tweaked mustache and the smile of a shark on the prowl.
In 1985, Hallo Dandy became another defending champion to suffer a first-fence exit, while Mick Fitzgerald fell at the first in the 1995 Grand National before winning on Rough Quest 12 months later.
Sir Paul McCartney has fulfilled a "personal ambition" by being immortalised in The Dandy.
In two weeks time, The Dandy will publish its last paper edition and focus on a new online version.
Plus he wears a cape, that accessory beloved by eternal sex symbol Count Dracula and dandy Oscar Wilde.
At the end of it, Wainewright emerges from his appalling hardships with a measure of genuine dignity that goes deeper than the affected hauteur of the dandy.
Even when news stories play it straight down the "he says, she says, " line, who, as a parent, are you going to believe: the company protesting that its toy, usually assembled in China, is just fine and dandy, or the "watchdog" group warning that it's frighteningly dangerous and waving a test to prove it?
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