Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right on cue, a dapper, greying man in a brown double-breasted pin stripe, wearing a pair of heavy shell-rimmed glasses, sauntered jauntily up to the witness stand. As the applause quickened, he turned, bowing and smiling to his expectant audience, maneuvering his profile skillfully in the fusillade of exploding flashbulbs. With forefinger dramatically outstretched, he raised his hand for the oath. To the first, identifying question he replied: "Motion picture actor-I hope...
Utopian Ideal. Gompers had hoped to be succeeded by dapper Matthew Woll, then head of the tight little Photo-Engravers Union. But John L. Lewis opposed Woll. Lewis was also scheming to become Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of Labor. He wanted a quiet and friendly man as president of the federation. The big bloc of votes from the U.M.W., and the votes of other chieftains who wanted no interference with their own ambitions and intrigues, elected Green president of the A.F.L. Four days later, he enjoyed one of the big moments of his life-Coshocton welcomed him home with...
Comeback. Actually, it had just begun. When the Seabury Investigation forced dapper Jimmy Walker out of New York's City Hall, a Fusion Party was born and Fiorello LaGuardia, its candidate for mayor, rode noisily into the third biggest political job in the land. On election night, although he had not yet taken office and had no real authority, he ordered police to send 400 patrol wagons out to bring voting machines to police headquarters-he suspected Tammany henchmen of trying to alter the vote for comptroller. The police obeyed, and the Fusion candidate won. In the next twelve...
...planners for the 16 nations obediently set about to comply with Clayton's wishes. The full committee cut the estimate of dollar needs to about $17 billion, by the simple but uncertain expedient of assuming that U.S. prices would fall. France's delegate, dapper Herve Alphand, emphasized that, in any case, "the figures in our report are by no means a claim or a demand, they are merely an illustration [of what it would cost to reconstruct Western Europe...
...last week, to the amazement of many, the lords & masters made a pacifying pilgrimage. Commissioner Albert ("Happy") Chandler himself led the westward junket; he was accompanied by Presidents Will Harridge and Ford Frick of the American and National Leagues. At Los Angeles the battle was joined. Loudly led by dapper President Clarence ("Pants...