Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dapper little Pat Rooney took up at Tony Pastor's where his famous dad had left off, danced and sang his way to vaudeville immortality with Rosie O'Grady and a ballad about one Mr. Reilly so enchantingly delivered that everybody has wanted to live Mr. Reilly's life ever since. Last week, 51 years after his debut, and with his own son, Pat Rooney 3rd, now doing his own song-&-dance, platinum-haired Pat Rooney walked into Federal Court in Manhattan, filed petition for bankruptcy. His assets: $252, and a job entertaining at Billy Rose...
...choosing as architects dapper, apple-cheeked, Finnish-born Eliel Saarinen and his broad-shouldered, twinkling son Eero, the Tabernacle Church got a pair of modernists whom even conservative architects respect. Best known for his rose-granite railway station at Helsinki, Eliel Saarinen recently won (with Son Eero and Son-in-law Robert Swanson) the national competition for the $2,500,000 Smithsonian Gallery of Art, which, if built, will be Washington's first modern Government building. Now president of Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit, Architect Saarinen exerts a widening influence over U. S. building...
...Dapper Eugene...
...your issue of Nov. 18 . . . you speak of the dapper Jean La Baron. Now he may be dapper but he is Eugene Le Baron. You see, I know, being his mother...
...TIME bows to the world's best authority on the right name of dapper, cigar-puffing Eugene Le Baron, lawyer for Central American airline TACA (recently bought by American Export Airlines...