Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opened at a hotel breakfast table. James J. Walker, the dapper, glib, little mick who is Mayor of New York, was pleading with photographers and newsgatherers. He held up his coffee cup. "I really want to drink it," he said...
Handsome, stocky, dark, and dapper, Gene Sarazen, walked round a golf course at Nassau with dour Johnny Farrell, voted the best dressed U. S. golfer. At the ninth hole Sarazen was a stroke behind. At the seventeenth he was all even. He sank his approach shot on the eighteenth for a birdie 2. Farrell's 15-foot putt hit the back of the cup and bounced out. Sarazen, who goes to Nassau yearly for a sunburn, had won the open championship of the Bahama Islands. In St. Augustine, Fla., Glenna Collett, favorite daughter of Providence...
Softly from Scotch bagpipes there sounded, last week, in the depths of Westminster Abbey, that lilting, infinitely plaintive tune, The Flowers of the Forest. One of many hundreds who harkened and wept slow, heartfelt tears was a great statesman who sometimes appears too slick, too superficial and too dapper...
Impressed by the way he conducted himself last summer in Europe, the Mardi Gras Committee of New Orleans last week announced that it had invited glib, dapper Mayor James John Walker of New York to be Lord High Chamberlain of its revels next month. Mayor Walker was reported trying to contrive to accept...
Later, after Princess Alice married the dapper Ohioan, Nicholas Longworth, who became Speaker of the House, Mrs. McCormick and Mrs. Longworth formed the friendship that is now said to be one of the strongest influences keeping Mrs. McCormick in politics. Other influences are Mrs. McCormick's unboastful estimate of her own undoubted political acumen; her experience since 1924 as Republican National Committeewoman from Illinois; and heredity. In Illinois, she will run for nomination as the protegée of well-entrenched Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, against Congressman Henry R. Rathbone who did not support Mayor Thompson...