Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the corner called Madagascar had come its former Governor, dapper M. Marcel Olivier, recently elected president of the French Line. Accustomed to think internationally, M. Olivier appealed in his speech for a "Washington Conference" to end the present costly race between Britain, France, Germany and Italy, each of which has been squandering untold millions to build the champion liner of the Atlantic. "In the interests of that internationalism for which the world is striving," cried M. Olivier, "the French merchant marine is anxious to collaborate in avoiding wasteful competition...
Four men sat around a long conference table in a Manhattan publisher's office one day last week, registering varying degrees of pleasure. Large, dapper Publisher Richard Roy Smith beamed. Wide-eyed Critic George Jean Nathan puffed contentedly on a cigar. Ernest Boyd lolled crosslegged, grinning through his messianic beard. Hulking Theodore Dreiser looked less glum than usual. All had just learned that the first monthly issue of The American Spectator ("A Literary Newspaper") published by Mr. Smith and edited by the three writers (plus James Branch Cabell and Eugene O'Neill) had sold out its entire edition...
Lawyer Hogan, the dapper "million-dollar fee" man who defended Oilmen Doheny and Fall against the U. S. in the gay 1920's. got off a lively attack on the abuse of citizens' rights by Federal enforcement officers. Excerpt...
...that building, president of the company as his father was before him, sits Thomas Bassett Macaulay. Life is peaceful and secure to Mr. Macaulay. He is an important figure in Montreal's closely-knit tycoonarchy. Sometimes he lunches at the St. James or Mount Royal Club with stocky, dapper Edward Wentworth Beatty of the C. P. R. or grave Sir Herbert Samuel Holt of the Royal Bank of Canada, both directors of his company. Summers he spends at Hudson Heights, raising fine Holsteins, experimenting with sturdy strains of corn...
There is a nightmare that every Latin-American President has over & over again. In it the dapper officers who have been saluting so punctiliously come to the President's bedroom in the middle of the night with a resignation for him to sign. Chilean officers last week called on dapper little President Carlos Guillermo Davila. former Ambassador to the U. S., and it was no dream. While airplanes droned over the Presidential palace for nearly 24 hours, General Bartolome Blanche, the Army's Commander in Chief, and Col. Arturo Merino Benitez, Chief of the Air Force, argued...