Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the family tradition, dapper, adroit "Russ" Forgan of Glore, Forgan & Co.-whose career at Princeton (Class of 1922) set a new high for social grace and near-professional virtuosity as leading man of the Triangle Club (musical comedies)-started in at commercial banking. He was a vice president of Chicago's National Bank of the Republic when he shifted to securities by joining Messrs. Field & Glore in 1931. He now heads the Manhattan office, while Partner Glore runs the Chicago office...
...born Man Ray, who is not only an able painter but manages to imbue Rayograph pictures of bits of wire, corks and lumps of sugar with exactly the eerie quality that surrealists desire. Least concerned with sexual symbolism and one of the most commercially successful of surrealists is genteel, dapper Pierre Roy, whose gay arrangements of bright ribbons, bits of seashells, sticks and empty wine glasses have long charmed socialites, advertising art directors and smartchart editors. But surrealism would never have attracted its present attention in the U. S. were it not for a handsome 32-year-old Catalan with...
Councilman Matthew Woll last week defended this strong-arm action as an "emergency" move based on a "doctrine of assumed and implied considerations," after which effort the dapper, reactionary A. F. of L. vice president collapsed from exhaustion, was hospitalized...
...McGrady, slim, dapper and energetic, Jersey City-born and South Boston-bred, has had a long career on the inside of both labor and politics. Although he looks like a man in his forties, he was already 22 years old when he got a job as a pressman on the Boston Herald 42 years ago. A good backslapper and able talker, he rose to head the local union, was spotted by George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen's Union, who picked him as an organizer. Berry, who belongs to the school of polished labor leaders, insisted...
...Francisco opening a dapper Italian mounted the conductor's stand proud as Punch, not that he is a great conductor, or that anyone has ever called him one, but because he, Gaetano Merola, could rightfully claim credit for making San Francisco's opera thrive. For his first season (1923) there was not even an adequate stage. Quick to gamble, he spent $20,000 fixing up the old Auditorium, began importing high-priced singers. When that first season ended Impresario Merola went to the hospital with a nervous breakdown. But San Franciscans had liked his performances, wanted more, formed...