Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always wins, courts boredom. Threatened last week with such boredom was Eugene Francis Savage, spry and dapper Leffingwell Professor of Painting at Yale University. Again he beamed upon the annual list of Prix de Rome awards. Again a pupil of his headed the roll of honor. And, as usual the winning painting, a mother and child, faithfully imitated the painting style of Leffingwell Professor Eugene Francis Savage...
Paris, the city that decapitated one pair of Bourbon monarchs 138 years ago, welcomed the King & Queen of Spain exuberantly last week. Dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe had his bowler hat pushed over his eyes several times by ecstatic French and Spanish Royalists be- fore the Biarritz express pulled into the Gare d'Orléans. Queen Victoria Eugenie wept again at the unexpected welcome. Nine months ago the Prince of the Asturias, heir to the throne, arrived jauntily in Paris, apparently entirely cured of his haemophilia (easy bleeding) but the strain of the past fortnight was too much...
Smilingly, though he was ill and coughing, 98-lb. King Prajadhipok took leave of his Canadian guard, strapping "Mounties" in red coats and wide he-hats. As they climbed down from the train, U. S. secret service guards climbed up, followed by a dapper group of men whom Portal had been eying somewhat askance-State Department officials in dress suits and capes, led by Richard Southgate, acting chief of the Division of International Conferences & Protocol...
...danced with her, took her motoring in one of the capital's first cars. Under the chaperonage of Secretary of War William Howard Taft they, with others, made a junket together to the Orient. When their home-coming steamer docked at San Francisco, a newshawk spotted a very dapper young man busily engaged with bags and grips on deck while a pert and pretty girl sat on a trunk whistling at him the then popular tune, "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You." Alice Roosevelt and Nicholas Longworth were married in 1906 in one of the grand est White...
Critics paused before a well constructed, firmly drawn portrait by the club's treasurer, grey-haired, dapper Stanley Adams Sweet. Treasurer Sweet in private life is president of Sweet-Orr & Co. (overalls), generally recognized as the first company to market a high grade, tailored overall. Treasurer Sweet has no false ideas of his own prowess as a painter, but insists that his membership in the club has been invaluable in showing him the technical problems that great masters have had to overcome...