Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third of the Insull com pany's annual deficit. With 75% capacity attendance the box-office takings would amount to $138,500, leaving a $11,500 deficit. With a $75,000 reserve fund they felt they could go ahead. They asked for it, got it. Paul Longone, a dapper little Italian, was engaged as impresario. He was handed $79,000 and told it was all he could have to pay for his artists. The talent that Impresario Longone got for the money bears evidence to the passing of fantastic fees. Soprano Maria Jeritza, who opened many a Metropolitan season...
...knowing what to do with the derelict Trust, bankers called in the great engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter to find out whether it should be salvaged or scrapped. A younger brother and junior partner of the founder Hobart Porter was assigned the job. Blond, dapper, fond of horses and tennis, Seton Porter graduated from Yale in 1905. A good engineer, he was assistant manager of a construction company on the West Coast before he joined his brother's firm. He recommended that the Trust be salvaged. The bankers were willing to take his expensive advice if he would...
Louis Lepine, "King of the Paris streets," is dead. For eighteen years this suave, dapper little man ruled the greatest of continental cities as Prefect of Police, tamed the apaches, and with velvet-gloved truncheon put down each uprising of a notoriously restless populace. It was the quiet, tense efficiency of his regime which inspired the novels of Gaborlau, the mystery of Stevenson's "Suicide Club," and the dashing career of Arsene Lupin...
Major General Frank Parker, now in charge of the 6th Corps Area (Chicago), to command the potent Philippine Department. Dapper, diplomatic General Parker achieved a brilliant War record as commander of the First Division in the Argonne. South Carolina-born and socially inclined, he did much to revive the social life of Chicago's Fort Sheridan. With his wife and one of his daughters, Anne (who was last year voted the most beautiful girl at Smith College), he will sail for Manila next month...
...State's finances, with power to suspend or withhold appropriations, reduce personnel. Last week Governor Moore, still true to the Princeton Plan, selected John Colt, 43, able Princeton banker and onetime assistant professor of politics at the university, to fill the null position. Fiscal Commissioner Colt, dapper, popular, brainy, is a Republican. His appointment gave evidence that Democratic Governor Moore was sharply avoiding politics in public expenditures. Son of a Kansas City minister, "Dictator" Colt studied at Princeton, served with the A. E. F., returned to teach at Princeton. He married Eleanor Boyd, sister of Author James Boyd (Drums...