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Word: dapper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figaro in Wonderland | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: End of Bogyok | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Red Sky at Morning | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Globe-Girdlers | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: With Both Hands | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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