Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dapper little Publisher Roy Wilson Howard of the Scripps-Howard chainpapers, fresh home from interviewing bigwigs all over Europe, declared that the greatest menace in Europe was the possibility that the French and English people would finally say: "Dear God, if we've got to fight this war, let's do it and get it over with. . . . Too much emotionalism and too little realism are being evidenced in the U. S. toward the entire European situation...
...well-written story of minor moment, laid at Harvard and in Mexico (where Wells Lewis has spent the last few summers), They Still Say No concerns the sex life of a Harvard undergraduate. Hero is a tall, dapper, literary innocent named Crane Stewart. Engaged to a cautious girl named Julia, Crane harkens to the lusty bad advice of his pal Jeff, frightens Julia away in a blundering attempt at seduction. At a Park Avenue party, with a girl who is willing, luck is again against him. That summer he goes to Mexico to visit his uncle, falls in love with...
...Dine & Dance joint between Kansas City and St. Louis a tall, dapper, bald customer tipped the pretty red-headed waitress 50?. She goggled archly. "Nobody's thrown that much money at me for two days." "Sweetheart," said the customer, "I'd like to throw more than that at you." Ten minutes later, heading for another joint on Route 40, this fast worker quoted the waitress's price to his chauffeur. "I'm supposed to come back for her at two-thirty," he said...
...dapper, delirious Catalonian placed in one window an old-fashioned bathtub lined with black Persian lamb and filled with water, from which three wax arms arose holding mirrors. Pensive before the tub stood a wax mannequin clothed in green feathers, with long, bright red hair. On the walls, upholstered in purple, small mirrors were fixed here and there, and narcissism was further indicated by narcissuses floating...
...Lion. Last week, in spite of doctors' warnings, 78-year-old Paderewski took the road again. Accompanying him from Switzerland was his dapper, diplomatic secretary Sylwin Strakacz, his valet and a curious, high-backed, fringed, 50-pound piano stool which is as indispensable to Paderewski's playing as the piano itself. Waiting for him in Manhattan was the private Pullman which will be his home during the next three months. Waiting also was his faithful piano-tuner, grey-haired Boston-born Eldon Joubert, who has accompanied him on all his U. S. tours since...