Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clan. At every home meet, Bill is the MC, and his customary shyness must be disspelled for the moment as he announces to an adoring throng that Geoligan won the 50 yard dog paddle in exactly six seconds flat. For the Eastern intercollegiates last weekend, Gentry added a dapper white jacket to his costime. It had that certain touch...
...entrance the President sat in a big red leather chair, the famed ivory cigaret holder tilted audaciously, the famed charm sparkling and bubbling like champagne. So seductively supercharged was the Roosevelt manner that it shocked one of his guests to a state of real alarm. Said Nebraska's dapper freshman Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, come to take the place of good George Norris: "No man who has that persuasive power, such personal charm . . . should serve more than two terms. . . . We've got to safeguard the American people...
Last week, as Britain's dapper Anthony Eden arrived in Washington to begin discussions on policy (see p. 9). four U.S. Senators prepared to send another declaration to the world. Again it took the form of a Senate resolution, but it differed mightily from Senator Lodge's. It bore the names of two Democrats-Alabama's Lister Hill, New Mexico's Carl Hatch-and two Republicans-Minnesota's Joseph H. Ball and Ohio's Harold Burton...
...calm center of all this commerce is a small, dapper, pink-cheeked inheritor of the great Polish piano traditions. He can toss off a gesture with the aplomb of a Vladimir de Pachmann. (When his Manhattan visit last week was attended by a heavy snowstorm Rubinstein looked out his hotel window and shrugged. "The weather," said he, "has no effect upon me. I impose my personality upon the weather...
...adventures on Lake Titicaca (between Peru and Bolivia); 2) the stormy flight of a young Chilean mail plane named Pedro; 3) Goofy (Disney's canine cowboy) as an Argentine gaucho; 4) a "Water Color of Brazil" that introduces a brand-new Disney character, Jose Carioca, a dapper Brazilian parrot, who is as superior to Donald Duck as the Duck was to Mickey Mouse...