Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. If you marry into Fifth Avenue society at 21, bear a daughter when you are still fond of dancing, choke on the resultant respectability, accept a dapper clubman's advances' and slide out of New York Harbor with him on his yacht, leave him in Europe, later have an idyll with a boy-artist, who in turn leaves you, then it is a natural thing to settle quietly on the French Riviera. There your past blends with the background. You anoint your conscience with self-pity. You maneuver and wait in righteous patience for the boy-artist...
...patent-medicine makers who first exploited those two famed individuals-"Before" and "After." "Before" was always a sorry Dick indeed, with a vague crumbling face and derelict eyes; "After" was the apotheosis of dapper, life-conquering assurance. At the Yankee Stadium, New York City, last week, Paavo Nurmi reversed the parable which has long been so excellently illustrated in the contrasting personalities of Before, of After. He appeared in his sweater of robin's-egg blue to run against Alan Helffrich in the half-mile special of the Finnish-American...
...reporter. In his mind burned a vision of inextinguishable deviltry-pirates, in look-me-over clothes and patent leather pumps, dicing for stock certificates upon a keg of dynamite. Instead, he found the Elliott sales force met together for a sing-song and smoker. They were mostly young men, dapper but demure. A fake, the Phonofilm Corporation? Why, they told the reporter, President Coolidge himself knew of it. Sure enough, the investigator beheld a phonofilm of the sharp-faced President, on the White House lawn, reading a speech...
...baseball diamond. All over the South, fields "' were crawling with such players. From every cranny of the U. S., they had come, with suitcases of leather, of wicker and with duffle bags; some of them as unprepossessing as the dismal fellow just described, others; indeed, far worse; many brisk, dapper veterans who scorned the scrofulous looks of such unseasoned players and shouted harsh commands at them. They were the company of men?numbering over 500?who play baseball in the American and National Leagues...
Thousands of dapper collegians, throwing away their cigaret butts, entered a Manhattan Armory to watch the annual indoor meet of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America. At midnight they emerged, hastily relighted their cigarets, having seen seven records, including two world mark's, lowered, having seen the athletes of Georgetown University pile up 37 points against 24 1/4 for Harvard, 221/2 for Pennsylvania, while 19 other famed institutions straggled after...