Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Not the least reason for Southern hatred of antilynching bills is that for the past decade they have been inextricably associated with Walter White, and that the gradual growth of the anti-lynching movement had by last week made spunky, dapper, 44-year-old Negro White the most potent leader of his race...
...Reynaud was immediately asked by M. Chautemps to enter the Cabinet as Finance Minister, as it was thought his presence would steady the franc and impress England. At the Coronation of King George VI dapper little Paul Reynaud, although only a private citizen, was accorded by His Majesty's Government, among whom he has many friends, one of the very best seats in Westminster Abbey. It was really he who last week gained most in France, if only in kudos...
Before a socialite audience in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore one day last week, dapper, 40-year-old Poet Joseph Auslander, recently appointed to the "chair of poetry" of the Congressional Library, proposed as his first official act the building of "a singing tower," meaning a place where poets' work would be safe against "the horrors of the hour, Beast passion and the lust for power." At the end of a three-verse appeal which began...
...dapper, long-nosed, quick-moving little Ravel visited the U. S. to conduct some of his own compositions with Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony and other U. S. orchestras. Shy, almost hysterically affable as a conductor, he seemed continuously surprised and pleased that his music sounded so well. Once he lost his place in the middle of his own La Valse and had to be pulled through by the orchestra...
Promptly the protests started to pour in to Senator La Follette's office. In some cases at least the dapper little heir to the Wisconsin Progressive machine had apparently stuck his neck way out. The list had been compiled in large measure from questionnaires sent out to detective agencies. And some of their clients had used detectives, not for labor espionage, but for such humdrum matters as the discovery of petty pilferers...