Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dapper, graying, 46-year-old Bert Oakley sold out his shop in Salt Lake City in 1928 to move to California, settled...
...road to power he had made many enemies. His chief rival was dapper, wily ex-Premier U Saw. He had accused Aung San of being a British puppet, refused to sign the independence agreement in London because it might lead to dominion status instead of full independence for Burma. Last year gunmen fired three shots into U Saw's car; glass cut his face. He accused Aung San of planning the attack, and tightened the guard on his fortress-like house on a lake seven miles from Rangoon...
...Greek leftists arrested by the Greek Government on charges of conspiring to set up a Communist state. Biggest catch in the net was 42-year-old Demetrios Partsalides, dapper, white-haired secretary general of the EAM, Communist-controlled leftist coalition. (Partsalides, also arrested a few minutes before dawn, did not quibble about the time...
...Houston Post's Oveta Gulp Hobby termed it, made varying impressions on the globe-girdlers. Thomas H. Beck, president of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., had left prophesying war in three years; he returned "more convinced than ever that it is true." Scripps-Howard's dapper Roy Wilson Howard saw "palms up everywhere around the world," found everyone fearful of "the menace of Communism...
...whistles blowing, he and a carful of mild, bespectacled Foreign Office experts drove to the British Embassy on the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. For three hours Bevin and British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the Embassy gardens, comparing notes. Then Premier Paul Ramadier and dapper, London-tailored Foreign Minister Georges Bidault arrived with their experts. Eleven French and eleven Britons got their heads together over the veal,* adjourned to the garden veranda later for whiskey, brandy, and more happy talk...