Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner waxed, two dapper gentlemen at a nearby table saw Lord Birkenhead look upon the .wine of Madeira-and it was red. Then the dapper gentlemen began a spelling match, quite innocently, between themselves. Soon they, shrewd sharpers, were betting on each other's spelling prowess. When the game was ripening to high stakes one of the so dapper gentlemen approached the Earl of Birkenhead. "We know Your Lordship is a great student of the English language. . . . Perhaps Your Lordship will spell two score words against my friend-?100 to the winner. . . . Your Lordship has the repute of being...
...feeding sugar cane to their wares, upon Portuguese loafers strolling about with a sow on a string, upon swart policemen impressively asleep- finally upon the Earl of Birkenhead who walked in a bathrobe, worn toga-fashion, beside a pool into which no one cast ?100. That evening the so dapper gentlemen were merry. What a joker His Lordship was, to be sure! Mr. Shaw was not half so clever. Haw! Pretended he would jump into the pool, haw! Who but His Lordship would even have thought of it? Perishable! Positively rare and perishable! Haw! . . . "You will tip my waiter...
Like popular songs, good business women appear often in the U. S. There are so many of these women, smart and well-to-do, making money as brokers, bankers, milliners, writers, politicians, decorators, that, like the dapper melodies that reflect the trends of the times, they have become a national tradition. But there are not many women whose earned income exceeds $10,000 a year. Here and there one finds a woman capitalist like Mrs. Edward Harriman, who last week received the honorary degree of Master of Letters from New York University. Mrs. Harriman is a discerning patron...
...grandfather, his own father's father, had been a cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte! His surname, once Buonfiglio? "good son" in feud-loving Corsica ?had become gallicized into Bonfils. He had attended West Point but left hurriedly. Corsicans, cousins of Napoleon, resent discipline. He had come West, flash and dapper, intent on a killing; and now he was already a legend. He was the Fred G. Bonfils who had lately cleaned out of Kansas City with $800,000 and no holes in his skin. That was who he was, Fred G. Bonfils; $800,000; Napoleon's cousin. Money! Power! Ambition...
...finally transmitted to M. Briand "new instructions." The shade of Alfred Nobel must have rejoiced as his three Peace prize winners signed a convention adjusting their differences on a hotel table. With them, to bind the bargain, signed Signer Scialoja of Italy, Foreign Minister Vandervelde of Belgium and dapper Viscount Ishii of Japan, League Council members all. The role of Emile Vandervelde, veteran Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, in last week's negotiations was candidly revealed by Dr. Stresemann who said: "He took the part of mediator between us. . . . Do not forget that Germany was the country with which Belgium...