Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Way. A Britain which was retreating in the rest of the world still held fast to oil, pipelines and bases in the Hashimite kingdoms. The three who had their heads together in Amman were thoroughly used to working the British way. There was little about the dapper, languid Abdul Illah (who likes Bond Street clothes, flowers in his buttonhole and cocker spaniels) to show that he was the son of a desert king, Ali of the Hejaz, who had been pushed from his throne,in 1925 by Arabia's flowerless, buttonless Ibn Saud...
...just as the first showers in four months began to fall. "The King is the bringer of rain!" shouted 9,000 grateful Bantus massed in the town square. Dusky women, their faces painted white and yellow for the occasion, waved corncob pipes in lusty greeting; Bantu men, led by dapper Chief Vukile (in a smart brown suit and fedora) and his counselors (one in a gilded top hat, military greatcoat and pajama pants), raised cheers for "Sozizwe"(the Father of All Nations) and prepared to slaughter eight oxen in his honor. "Bring on your enemies," yelled hundreds of Transkei herders...
...highly competitive magazine business, where one false step can be fatal, it was a brilliant transformation. Three men had sweated it out. One was Editor Ted Patrick, the dapper, greying adman who had dropped everything at Curtis' unborn, LIFElike "Magazine X" to go to Holiday's rescue (TIME, July 8). One was British-born Art Editor James Yates, who had gone to "X" after restyling the Satevepost during the war. The third was wise and wiry Ik (pronounced Ike) Shuman, who left a top job at the New Yorker four years ago to work first as "magazine consultant...
Just now the bushes are being agitated by one Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, also known as El Negro (the Dark One), and "Captain of the People." Gaitan is a dapper, black-haired demagogue modeled somewhat along the lines of Louisiana's late Huey Long...
Gentleman's Agreement. Earlier in the week, matters had not looked so good. One night-which became famed as "gentleman's agreement" night - the bright lights at Flushing beat down on a dapper, suave, self-assured diplomat with a red handkerchief flopping out of his coat pocket. This was Britain's Sir Hartley Shawcross, 44, a quick-witted prosecutor who had not yet learned that, at international conferences, haste makes waste, or worse...