Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment of adjournment last week, neither Britain nor Japan had requested so much as a peek. Therefore dapper Mr. Gibson put the Hoover Formula back into his brief case and returned to his diplomatic post-Brussels. Four days later, Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Rt. Hon. William Clive Bridgeman, resolute opponent of any reduction in John Bull's navy, received a copy of the Hoover plan, not from Ambassador Gibson but from the U. S. naval experts in Geneva. Eventually he must submit an opinion on it to the Committee of Imperial Defense, which will pass...
...York's dapper, smart-cracking Mayor James John Walker, between whom and Mr. Smith little love is left, gave his support to the district leaders. Mr. Curry's election followed. Said Boss Curry: "It's the same old Tammany. ... I have always been opposed to vice and gambling...
...President Herbert Hoover of the U. S. who opened the statesmen's chess game at Geneva, last week, by advancing a sprightly pawn, Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium. The civilized world attended while dapper Mr. Gibson addressed the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission as follows: "It has recently been my privilege to discuss the general problem of disarmament at considerable length with President Hoover. I am in a position to realize, perhaps as well as anyone, how earnestly he feels that the pact for the renunciation of war opens for us an unprecedented opportunity for advancing...
Helen Kane sings in an idiom and with an inflection peculiar to the Bronx, N. Y., where she grew up and where her father ran a neighborhood store. In vaudeville she was one of those fat, supernaturally stupid girls who serve up joke cues to dapper comedians. Later, in Broadway nightclubs, her fame spread as a singer of semi-salacious, contemporary folk songs. She sang with Paul Ash's orchestra, later in the musical comedy Good Boy. Young men in eastern colleges have voted for her as their favorite actress...
...wide semicircle of trenches was dug south of Jiminez railway station. There the insurrectos piled in and waited for the army of dapper General Almazan, plodding across the desert...