Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dapper, slick Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, cordially disliked by the New Deal. When Chip's prosperous Atlanta contracting firm, Robert & Co., grabbed off one juicy segment after another of the defense pie, enemies effected his ousting from the secretaryship of the National Democratic Party...
Died. Franklyn Laws Hutton, 64, dapper little Manhattan broker, father of the Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow, whose huge Woolworth fortune, inherited through his first wife, he managed so shrewdly that his daughter became the "richest girl in the world"; at his plantation near Charleston...
Senator-Bishop Bunker, 5 ft. 10 in., stocky, with dark wavy hair, heavy eyebrows, Clark Gable ears and a hairline mustache, is dapper, earnest, no isolationist. Like the late Brigham Young, he loves to dance.* He observes the Word of Wisdom (no tobacco, tea, coffee or strong drink), chews hundreds of sticks of gum annually; as a bishop he marries, buries, and manages church affairs without remuneration. High-school educated, the son of pioneer ranchers, he entered politics four years ago as a Young Democrat, topped the ticket in 1938 in a race for the Legislature, became Speaker...
...merely made a forced landing in a deserted spot, TACA withheld news of its lateness for several hours. Next morning the San Jose Tribuna printed a scathing editorial, hinted some might have been saved if TACA had reported the missing plane sooner. To make matters worse, TACA's dapper lawyer, Jean La Baron, who constantly puffs on long, thin cigars, was quoted by Costa Rican newsmen as saying: "American Export Airlines has the sympathy and backing of the U. S. Department of State . . . [which] will oppose any effort of Pan American to compete with TACA, now an American company...
...spectator is relied upon to hate the Nazis out of his own accord. In fact the rescuer of prisoner Nazimova is the uniformed concentration camp doctor, a Nazi and a lovable chap besides. As for the general, villain of the drama, he fills his part with such dignity and dapper looks that he elicits more admiration than hisses...