Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Australian machine gunners later disputed the kill, Brown never made any extravagant claims. In civilian life he was a small, unassertive man, greying and dapper in later years. Last week, at his peaceful farm near Toronto, Captain Roy Brown, D.S.O., D.F.C. with bar, quietly died...
...Talisman. Five days before Sir Archibald Sinclair, Britain's dapper Secretary of State for Air, told the House of Commons that Allied air power was now nearly at peak strength, and declared that air supremacy, "the talisman that can paralyze German war industry and war transport and clear the road to Berlin," is clearly within reach...
...under a glittering crystal chandelier. It looked like the last act of Ziegfeld's Rosalie-wave after wave of bedecked diplomats, armchair generals, bathtub admirals from every civilized country and Japan. The Japs arrived in a protective wedge, their runt-sized correspondents flanked by a beefy general, their dapper ambassador overshadowed by a flashy admiral. They all smiled and you kept thinking of Mr. Moto...
Iowa's dapper, young (47), first-term Governor makes a political asset of his fascinating name: Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper. Against the better judgment of his advisers, Governor Hickenlooper campaigned in 1938 by telling a joke on himself. A drugstore clerk refused to charge 10? worth of asafetida to the Hickenlooper account. "Take it for nothing," said the clerk, "I wouldn't write both asafetida and Hickenlooper for a dime...
...powerful newcomer has arisen in the U.S. wholesale grocery business. Under the very noses of the alpaca-sleeved grocer barons, dapper, cold-eyed Nathan Cummings, 47, has fashioned himself a duchy. Cummings, boss of Chicago and Baltimore's Sprague Warner-Kenny Corp., wound up in twelve hours of feverish trading a deal that made him a real power in the business...