Word: dapper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fools' Day, he appointed one John Joseph Connors, a dapper, poker-faced ward heeler, as chairman of the Boston Board of Election Commissioners. The salary: $7,000. In addition to supervising elections, the commission compiles lists of prospective jurors for Suffolk County and is charged with keeping them free of criminals...
...Société has been more direct. It sent out a cry of distress to shrewd, dapper René de Léon, who headed the company for 14 successful years (1922-36), is now a Hollywood hotelman (The Garden of Allah). Said he: "They asked me if I could find people here who would want to put money in to buy shares. They hoped I would return at the head of a wagonload of American gold. [The manager] came to me and said, 'Tiens! My friend, give me the best juice of your brains...
Stassen himself continued his whirlwind campaign. He spent the morning of his 41 st birthday in Omaha, cut a cake given to him by dapper Fred Seaton, his Nebraska manager, then hurried home to listen to the returns. Then he was off to Bob Taft's home state. He was competing with Taft for 23 of Ohio's 53 delegates. If he could take a dozen from Ohio's "favorite son," it would be the end of Taft's chances...
...Dapper, pudgy Committee Chairman J. Parnell Thomas was the Government's star witness. After he had given a dramatic reading of the transcript of Lawson's testimony before the committee, he was cross-examined. His aggressive, cocksure manner gone, he hedged and fidgeted as he was asked if he had been active as the committee's chairman. It took swarthy Defense Lawyer Ben Margolis five tries before he wrung from Thomas the reply: "Well, I don't want to be facetious or even egotistical, but I would say yes to that question...
Karajan is one of Austria's best skiers, and a man who likes fast cars and high living. He first crossed his rival's path back in the Nazi heyday. He was a dark and dapper little Austrian with relentless ambition, a Nazi before the Anschluss (Karajan's part-Jewish wife became one of Germany's five "honorary Aryans"). Goebbels backed Furtwängler; Goring backed Karajan. When Karajan became director of the Berlin State Opera, Furtwängler never got over it. And when Furtwängler was the first to be de-Nazified, Karajan...