Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Infallibly dapper, invariably chipper, insistently funny, Mayor James John Walker of New York City completed the legend of insouciance abroad (TIME, Aug. 29 et seq.) and sailed from France for the U. S., with Mrs. Walker. But before he left he- ¶ Addressed the American Legion in Paris. "I am authorized by law and by chance," he said, "to bring you the felicitations of the people of New York and to carry across the Atlantic their heart throbs that they may mingle with you in spirit. I want you to feel that your purposes will be their purposes...
...French group was Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister, looking tired and bored, more shaggy than ever, his half-closed eyes often gazing at the ceiling. M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, restless, smiling, alert, was in startling contrast to Louis Loucheur, heavy, stolid, inscrutable. Everybody noted, regretted, the absence of jovial, concise, dapper Henry de Jouvenel, recently resigned...
...Heart of Salome (Alma Rubens). How was dapper Monte Carrol, U. S. hero touring France, to realize that the entrancing Helene was not the sweet, good country lass she appeared to be in the shady bowers of Bretagne but really first assistant crook to Count Boris Zanko, Parisian archcriminal? When he discovers the truth, he calls her several bad names; and she, irritated, embarks upon revenge, thereby providing a Salome motif. Her weapon will be Count Boris, best swordsman in France. The thoroughgoing depravity of this fellow may best be understood when it is explained that he is Russian...
...Dapper and citified in spats and white piping on his vest, this elegant gentleman steps into the Overlook homestead and meets the missus. During the course of the conversation Overlook allows that despite his fifteen years in the city, he has always been a country lad at heart, whereas his visitor and his charming wife were born to the civilized life of cities. The latter looks at Mrs. Overlook with "a twist of hopeless longing in his eyes," and replies in a low voice. "I was born in a Iowa...
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, bearded, grotesque, labored in an undershirt. Wrapped in clouds of fragrant cigar smoke this hunchbacked Thor dreamed and made possible artificial thunderbolts. This week in Schenectady a dapper, clean-shaven man with the face of a witty and successful banker delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers the Steinmetz lecture, instituted in honor of his late fellow scientist...