Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steel Corporation, in capitalization and stockholders and employing nearly the same number of workers. Its' assets are over two billion dollars. It serves 16,000,000 telephone subscribers. Mr. Gifford is one of the youngest men ever picked to head any great utility. He succeeds dapper Harry B. Thayer, President since 1919, who will become Chairman of the Board of Directors-an office specially created...
...mention of that composite, non-existent creature--the college man--one never thinks of furrowed brow or snow white locks. A dapper youth with ruddy face and varnished hair, in some non-chalant pose upon a Hart, Schaffner--& Marx background, is the popular conception of this mystical creature. The reading public will find its ideal rudely shattered by an article in December "Sribner's" called "A Freshman Again at Sixty...
Jean Patou, dapper couturier now visiting the U. S., was lunched by the Advertising Club of Manhattan. Said he: "The purpose of my present trip is to study advertising methods in the U.S., for they are the best in the world. I will take back with me to Paris an American advertising manager for my firm." He was induced to speak on the subject of clothes. Glancing down at his own furnishings, he stipulated that to be truly "soigne" a man should have 80 suits, "Oh, but at least 80!" said...
...question at issue is: May an amateur sportsman write, if he can? Can he commercialize sport by profiting from the literary value, if any, of a name which sport has made valuable? The literary fecundity of "Big Bill" Tilden, national tennis champion, has raised the argument. Hence the dapper Senator, hence the astute poet-reporter, hence the nimble polo player. No action will be taken until the next annual meeting of the Tennis Association in February...
...Liberals have the hardest task, for they have to fight both Conservatives and Laborites. Their best poster showed a stalwart Liberal marked "It." On one side is a dapper bald-headed Conservative with a gouty foot, labeled "Past It"; on the other side is a shabby Communist, tagged "Beyond...