Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Urbane, precise, conservative, rather than dapper; tolerant, rather than genial; exhibiting button shoes, a cold eye, grey hair and long fingers, Henry E. Huntington goes on buying things. At San Marino he breakfasts at seven and reads for an hour, turning the pages carefully. When he is in Los Angeles or Manhattan he goes to his office and spends a few hours with his railroads, his villages, cliffs, painted motor buses, trolley-cars, skyscrapers, his coupons, clerks, cigars and the polite young men who look after his money and call him "Sir." It is pleasant to feel that these things...
...well nigh a quarter of a century the University has had a keen and sympathetic observer of her sons' manners and morals in the dapper person of Arthur Clement, smokeshop philosopher. His services to undergraduates, by no means confined to the realm of nicotine, have included such strictly extra-curricular acts as bailing erring wanderers from jail at early hours of the morning and keeping life in the indigent by timely extension of credit. His remarks anent discussed gastronomic situation at the University may therfore be regarded as words of rare wisd m prepart will, the fruit of long experience...
...Will Happen For The Best." The plot is frankly based upon that old farce, A Pair of Sixes, in which a poker hand assigns one man to the position of servant, the other to the position of master, for a whole year. The antics of elephantine Frank Mclntyre and dapper Charles Ruggles as the incompatible parties to the poker contract are enough to carry any show to success, even without the added help of droll comedienne Luella Gear, acrobatic Edwin Michaels, super-dynamic Gaile Beverly, beauteous Mary Lawlor, and a host of others. Willy Pogany made the settings...
...Alfonse and Gaston," famed comic-strip Frenchmen in comical silk hats, came irresistibly to mind, last week as the Chamber debated with classic frenzy the fiscal policy to be pursued by France. Finance Minister Caillaux, a bald and dapper "Gaston," outlined with deadly earnestness in a high pitched squeaky voice the keynotes of his plan to save the franc...
...their special talents and proclivities are by now all cataloged. There is not much news left in them. Yet last week newsgatherers found it necessary to invade the McCormick privacy just once more. Mrs. Cyrus Jr. had done a thing that is almost never done. She had sent her dapper secretary into the Manhattan terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad to order her a special train to Chicago, a fast one, to leave at once, immediately. The railroad was astonished, but efficient none the less. A very fast train whisked Mrs. Cyrus Jr. to Chicago in the record time...