Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That man is to be dapper, 55-year-old Frederick Dexter Corley, who began as a Field's stockboy 37 years ago, rose in the best Field's tradition to be president last year. As long as James McKinsey was chairman the presidency was an empty job. Now it is to resume its onetime importance. While President Corley last week pondered his future policies, certain hitherto unpublished details of the McKinsey management came to light...
...best way to stimulate a British husband and wife to breed, Humorist Herbert gravely advised, is for His Majesty's Government to provide likely couples with free holidays at the seaside. This drew guffaws, but dapper, dynamic Sir Kingsley Wood easily shoved his bill through second reading 197-to-125. To get the statistics wanted by the Ministry of Health, he declared, is now "a matter too urgent to await the census of 1941," and within a few weeks British housewives will either be slamming their doors against Nosey Parkers or taking these Ministry of Health bell-pushers into...
...oversized collar. For many hours he stood patiently erect-with a curious bearing of rustic urbanity and retiring self assurance -receiving the congratulations of state officials, municipal leaders, foreign envoys and friends. At the concert all eyes were upon his rugged figure as he sat, with his small, dapper wife, between the President and the Field Marshal. Though urged, he declined to make a speech. Even when Finland's Premier, Dr. Kivimaki, addressing the great audience, presented him with a laurel wreath symbolic of an entire nation's debt, he remained firmly and shyly silent. It was only...
...musicians the two biggest living composers in the world are undoubtedly Finland's Sibelius and Germany's Richard Strauss (Salome, Der Rosenkavalier). U. S. audiences would probably include a third-dapper, chameleonesque Igor Stravinsky (Le Sacre du Printemps, Petroushka...
...spade worker Robert Emerson Lees, onetime WPA Airport & Airways assistant director who joined the Maritime Commission eleven months ago, and to Aeronautical Adviser Grover Cleveland Loening, under whose direct supervision the report was drawn up. Adviser Loening, 49, appointed to the Commission six months ago, is a rich, dapper socialite, honest and unafraid of officialdom. A life-long aviation enthusiast, and manufacturer of the world's first successful amphibian, he said two years ago in his book Our Wings Grow Faster: "The handwriting is on the walls for the steamship lines. ... At 500 m.p.h., 50,000 ft. above...