Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, such individualism as Mr. Whalen's in a Tammany (which means team-play, or machine-play) administration was unusual in New York. Even amid the cheers, newsgatherers scented friction, suggested the dapper mayor was jealous of his Commissioner's sartorial perfection, of his triumphant publicity, his possible eligibility for the mayoralty itself...
Ticklish was the task faced by genial, dapper James ("Jim") Speyer, who was born in the home city of the house of Rothschild, Frankfort, Germany. As well as anybody Jim Speyer knew that a Secretary of Commerce by the name of Herbert Clark Hoover laid down what has since become an unwritten law of Washington: the Government will discourage subscription by U. S. citizens to loans intended to support a foreign monopoly...
...Manhattan, a dapper, well-dressed little man with a big suitcase rushed into Grand Central Station shouting: ''I'm going away from New York. It's too much...
...hours of last week's monster demonstration. Conspicuous in the crowd was William Zebu-Ion Foster, No. i Communist in the U. S., and his chief aides-burly, white-haired Editor Robert Minor of the Daily Worker; dour-faced Israel Amter, local Communist organizer. Equally conspicuous was dapper Grover Aloysius Whalen, New York Police Commissioner, and his gold-laced bodyguard, Chief Inspector John O'Brien...
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis's jewels have been his sons-in-law. With the late Edward William Bok he built his great magazine publishing business (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, et al.). And for the last 17 years his dapper, alert step-son-in-law, John Charles Martin, has busied himself in the other Curtis publishing enterprise, that of gaining control of the Philadelphia newspaper field. Announced, last week, was the seventh addition to Curtis-Martin Newspapers Inc.?The Philadelphia Inquirer...