Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Republican Challenge. Republicans, meeting at Saratoga Springs, were able to agree unanimously on their one best bet: District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey of New York County, the slim, dapper 36-year-old who has gained national publicity through his prosecution of big-city rackets (72 convictions, one acquittal, one mistrial). The mistrial in his crowning case against Jimmy Hines, alleged Tammany protector of the "numbers" racket (TIME, Sept. 19), gave his partisans a last-minute sinking spell. But they felt that public opinion blamed Justice Ferdinand Pecora (a Democrat) more severely for his ruling than Prosecutor Dewey for the question...
...opening round of the Men's Open, most of the gallery followed the favorite, Robert Patrick ("Pat") Ball, Chicago grocer who had won the title three times. Others with a lively following were dapper John Dendy. defending champion who works as a locker boy at North Carolina's fashionable Asheville Country Club; and Hugh Smith, a Thomastown (Ga.) office boy who recently shot a 263 in a southern tournament and was forthwith sent to the national meet by his boss (for whom he caddies weekends...
...round-faced, dapper Charles Oilman Norris quit his job as a magazine editor and wrote a novel. He was galled because his chief claim to fame was that he was the husband of Kathleen Norris and the younger brother of the late, famed Frank Norris (McTeague, The Octopus...
Dewey, already considered as Republican candidate for Governor, and even talked of for President in 1940, looked up. He appeared to have the makings of the juiciest campaign year scandal New York has known since Franklin Roosevelt practically ran Tammany's dapper little Mayor Jimmy Walker out of office...
Britain's Air Secretary, Sir Kingsley Wood, dapper, chubby and dynamic, witnessed some 900 bombers and fighters in the games. After three days of "war," Britishers were more skeptical than ever of their defenses. Aided by typical English fog and mist, "Eastland's" bombers jabbed through coastal defenses and rained white rockets, indicating hits, on interior manufacturing centres, including Norfolk, Suffolk and North London. Territorials, firing anti-aircraft rockets, were unable to prevent "Eastland" squads from roaring over London. As a crowning gesture, one "Eastland" squadron located the defenders' GHQ at Hornchurch, Essex, gleefully swooped down...