Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camera from the lair of a collaborationist nightclub singer (Enid Stamp-Taylor). A lot of people are interested in this camera, because it contains film which shows the location of the seaside house in which General Mark Clark and his colleagues are soon to rehearse signals for the invasion. Dapper Nazi Rilla and his henchmen energetically hound its bearers through the deluxe hotels and low dives of Algiers, take part in a brisk auto-chase which winds up at the very time & place of General Clark's rendezvous...
...talents, looks too much like a child actor. Curley does all his workouts in a shoe box, and though dozens of his screen colleagues watch him constantly, the tantalized audience never gets a gander. The agent (Cary Grant) is no pathetic shoe-stringer. He is a dapper Broadway impresario in danger of losing his theater. When he loses it, Cary is solaced by meeting Pinky's lush sister (Janet Blair). His slit-pussed sidekick (James Gleason), is perhaps the best member of the cast...
...Samuel Hoare, dignified, dapper Tory, holder of top British Cabinet posts (onetime Foreign Secretary, Secretary...
...acre farm at Pawling, New York's dapper Governor Tom Dewey last week took some time off. As a country squire he supervised the repair of a barn, directed construction of a new gravel road to his 200-year-old farmhouse, played an occasional game of One-o'-Cat with sons Tommy, 11, & Johnny, 8, went daily to the Pawling Country Club for 18 holes of golf. There was little State business; what there was, he disposed of quickly when State Troopers motored down from Albany with documents. He and his handsome wife Frances celebrated their 16th wedding...
...July to sell a $28,483,000 bond issue of its subsidiary Pennsylvania, Ohio & Detroit Co. through Kuhn, Loeb, which had long been handling most of their refinancing. As usual, prompt objection had come from peppery Cyrus Eaton, boss of Cleveland's Otis & Co., and from publicity-shy, dapper Harold Stuart of Chicago's Halsey, Stuart & Co. Champions of competitive bidding from way back, they cried that the traditional system of financing through private negotiation be tween underwriters and railroads had al lowed Kuhn, Loeb and Manhattan's Morgan, Stanley and Co. to monopolize U.S. railroad financing...