Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occupied the old wooden Gracie Mansion on the East River, between 88th & 89th Streets, onetime country place of Clipper Ship Owner Archibald Gracie. A modern fireproof building was imperative. The city donated land, a building fund was raised, an architectural competition was held. The competition was won by dapper little Joseph Henry Freedlander, an architect high in Tammany favor, who designed the bronze Fifth Avenue traffic towers removed two and a half years ago as traffic obstructions, and the equally expensive curbside traffic lights which took their place, hopes to build a shrine to Washington Irving opposite the new museum...
...brokerage house of deCoppet & Doremus is famed for other things than quick and accurate execution of customers' orders. Some of its partners' cultural adventures are as well-known as their business deals. Last week dapper Rowland Stebbins, Broadway's most successful stage "angel" for several seasons, announced he would put a stake back in Wall Street, become a special partner in deCoppet & Doremus,* his old firm. When he retired in 1929 to produce plays, Rowland Stebbins had been with the firm 23 years, twelve as a general partner. Before that he was an engineer until his cousin, the late Edward...
...York" and the Governor's jaunty theme song "Happy Days Are Here Again."Noisy crowds shouted cheerful impertinences. Mrs. Mary Mooney, 80, mother of Prisoner Mooney who was convicted along with Warren K. Billings of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day Parade, clasped the dapper Mayor in her arms. He visited her son at San Quentin, inspected the scene of the bombing, developed a nasty cold...
...Manhattan office, dapper, flippant, fun-loving Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, around whose sleek head the shot & shell of Investigation have whistled and cracked for 16 months, called in the City Hall reporters. He picked up a telegram from San Francisco, began reading...
...Dapper Major Frank Earl Mason, recently resigned president of Hearst's International News Service, returned from Europe to become a vice president of National Broadcasting...