Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon, dapper, coal-black President-elect William Vacarat Shadrach Tubman took over from President Roosevelt's onetime host and guest, Edwin J. Barclay (TIME, June 7). Then the new President knelt to ask the blessing of God upon his people. His lazy drawl poured out over the multitude, reminding all that Liberia had been founded under God and on Christian principles...
...than "Now, Voyager," for example. Most of this dialogue concerns the two loves of Bette, who here plays Katherine Marlowe, a modern and conscientious novelist. The first is the husband of her best friend (Miriam Hopkins) who "turns out her novels on a sausage grinder." The second is a dapper young man (Gig Young) whom she loses to Miriam's daughter. This latter part of the plot is weakened by its dependence on Gig Young's looks instead of on a character, and throughout the picture Miriam Hopkins has difficulty in making her role convincing. Even with these defects, however...
...busts are back, can bustles be far behind? But busts are not all the way back, for "Dr." Jean Paul Fernel has failed again. Mincing, dapper, wax-mustached Jean Paul Fernel has thrice lost his doctor's license since he graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1911. Last week the Food & Drug Administration got him convicted in Chicago District Court. On trial with "Dr." Fernel was Fernel's "Breasts of Youth," a brand of capsules which he peddled (at $5 for a month's supply) through ads in Beauty and Health News...
Diminuendo. The throttlebottomry of the Philippine Vice Presidency did not diminish Sergio Osmeña's popularity. He lived his quiet life, while dapper Manuel Quezon, quixotic spendthrift, lover of luxury, danced and entertained at Malacañan Palace and junketed about the world. At press receptions, Osmeña served wine, Quezon hard liquor. Osmeña, born with the Chinese hate for the Jap, held his tongue while Quezon was royally received in Japan. When they ran for re-election in 1941, Osmeña polled a higher vote than Quezon...
...Busy, dapper Constantine Oumansky, the Soviet Union's Ambassador Extraordinary and Envoy Plenipotentiary to Mexico, last week delivered the plainest statement made since Moscow on the U.S.S.R.'s plans for Poland. Essence of his statement: the U.S.S.R.'s "frontier with Poland" lies west of the Polish territory taken by the Russians in 1939, and that territory is still part of Soviet Russia...