Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interpreter (for Mr. Gatti-Casazza understands English but slowly and speaks it more slowly still) led them down a corridor to his office, one reporter hung behind, then dashed to a window and peered down just in time to see the door of the big car close behind a dapper, short and quick-moving man in a derby...
Mitchell Kennerley, President of the Anderson Galleries, returned, dapper and beaming, from London where he had engineered his sensa tional coup to bring the Leverhulme collection to the U. S. He was willing to talk about it, a little. . . . Yes, the sale had been an nounced for London, all plans made, before the trustees of Lever-hulme's estate changed their minds and sent him a cable. What had made them change their minds...
...sound of these loudly spoken words will echo in the ears of sober Boston for a long time after "The Show-Off" leaves town. And with the sound will go the memory of flashy clothes, a dapper moustache and a pose half like Napoelon and half like a peacock parade...
...Dapper Comptroller Cohen declared himself "as surprised as any person in New Orleans." He and 40 other alleged conspirators furnished bail of $5,000 each without hesitancy...
...dapper clubman's advances...