Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Have you no reservation, sir?" It is a stock question in certain "Goyim" (Christian) hotels which discriminate against Jews. The dapper clerk, a trained ethnologist, addresses it to any prospective guest whose name, dress, manners or lineaments might indicate that he is a Jew. U. S. Jews, many of them wealthy, finely educated, have heard this question, turned away from the desk, and had the bellboy carry their bags back to the taxicab...
Judge Toereky prudently refrained from prying into the nature of these "motives." Instead he called another prisoner, a dapper little man with his hair cut in the German fashion, a nervous but determined young man, who clenched and brandished a cane in one hand while he gesticulated with the other. This was Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz, a descendant of the "Holy Roman Emperors...
Orator "Red" Robinson is slender and dapper. Dullards who judge by appearances alone might take him for a dancing man, a talkative "cake-eater."* Than which nothing could be more misguided. He is a state champion pole-vaulter, a college basketball captain of all-Western calibre. When they heard he had won the oratorical title, his college mates rushed to prepare a demonstration at the railroad station. He had joined the distinguished roster of national intercollegiate eloquence champions, a roster including an author, a bishop, a governor, senators (including the late LaFollette, the retired Beveridge), six college presidents and many...
Speeches. Before they left town, they laid eyes upon dapper Julian Starkweather Mason, editor of the New York Herald Tribune, heard him earnestly declare that their papers were "far better than college papers of a generation ago, and better than most of the newspapers throughout the country." They learned that it was "a heartening thing for us newspapermen to have such high school publications and students as you, who will come miles to hear practical newspaper people talk." They learned that there are exciting moments in newspaper offices and that, for Editor Mason, "these moments are full of loyalty, service...
...heroine, Mary Moore, is a creature of similar appearance, whose Wyoming nativity urges her into the wide open spaces of ex-Senator Bob Millar of that state.? Her cosmopolitan sophistication inclines to dapper young Count André de Servaise. Both men are out to marry money, of which Mary has little. A Wyoming interlude that might have been written by Elinor Glyn in collaboration with Harold Bell Wright and a Campfire Girl, eliminates Millar?and Mary's chastity. When she finally marries André, whose constancy does not soar above the average for Latins, she discovers the comfort resident in observing...