Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the deft and dapper Caillaux crossed the ocean to settle for France, his business-like demeanor promised success. With the reign of common sense here prevailing, it almost seemed as if France's Phoenix were feigning America's go-get-it-iveness the better to suit its sovereign power. But after each side had laid a corner-stone, one at the North Pole and the other at the South, the structure collapsed at the Equator and floated blithely away to the Gold Coast...
...electric bulbs outside Promoter Tex Rickard's vast new sport arena in Manhattan blazoned a great name. Dapper dandies called up shingled dames and told them. Mayor Walker promised to occupy a ringside box. Ancient hooligans of the Roaring Forties cadged the entrance fee. Gorgeous Georges Carpentier motored over from his hotel. The bulbs were flaring forth: "Fitzsimmons...
Almost twelve hours after he had legally become Mayor, Jimmy Walker, dapper and swagger, descended from his car in front of the City Hall. The crowd was tremendous. As it surged around him he grinned: "Let me in, I want to go to work." Every room in the building was crowded. In one of the largest, crowded with 700 or 800 people, Mayor Walker took the oath a second time, then Mr. Hylan spoke. When he had done, the Mayor spoke, saying: "I, too, Judge Hylan, am very happy today." Then he began to read his prepared address. Before...
Roused to fury, dapper Newton Diehl Baker, onetime Secretary of War, now a Cleveland lawyer and chief counsel for the merger proponents, snapped to his feet as soon as proceedings permitted, keen eyes sparkling, clipping words contrary to his usually calm setting forth of arguments as purely intellectual concepts, refuted charges and implications, recalled that "Desdemona's handkerchief in hands other than her own became a wanton's gift to her paramour in the eyes of her suspicious lord...
King Alfonso, dapper and blandly smiling, welcomed the new Cabinet and proceeded to sign the parchments which gave it authority. He made valid a royal decree repealing that under which the Directorate has flourished; he gave legal status to the acts of the new Cabinet...