Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Although Dapper Dave Coulter, veteran Scotch curling champion and coach of the CRIMSON team for nine years, declined to name either the starting lineup or the final score until Thursday morning, he did indicate that he might call on Charles N. Pollak '40 for mound duty...
...offices-and soon they arrived, Secretary Hull at n p.m., Jay Pierrepont Moffat (Chief of the European Division) in a dinner jacket and black tie, Assistant Secretary Berle to spend the night at his desk. Correspondents also knew that from U. S. diplomats abroad reports would come fast: ¶Dapper, high-strung, Harvard-bred Minister Gordon at The Hague (who had spent most of the two nights before telephoning Washington ) got through an early wire of warning at 2:50 a.m., reported in a later telephone conversation that he could hardly hear himself talk because of anti-aircraft and machine...
Last week Emporia, Kans. held a five-day Fiestaval to dedicate its new $613.000 Civic Auditorium. Jiving, jittering climax of the Fiestaval was a dance, to music supplied (at $1,100) by dapper Duke Ellington, greatest of black swing-sters, and his band. The Sage of Emporia, wise old William Allen White, watched the cavortings, went home and wrote a garrulous, kindly-shrewd editorial for his Emporia Gazette. Excerpts...
Many a New Yorker well remembers March 1936, when, for 15 days, he climbed and panted up & down skyscraper office buildings, apartments, hotels left elevator-less by the building-service strike. Not so many remember the smoothly smiling, dapper man named George Scalise (rhymes with police), who was one of the war council running the strike...
...hand for the celebration was the chief character of the Barn Dance, spry, crackly-voiced, cotton-chin-whiskered Uncle Ezra (dapper little Pat Barrett, 52), who greets the audience with "Howdy, evvabuddy," warms evvabuddy's heart with his cracker-barrel philosophy. Uncle Ezra was in Hollywood, to play in Bob Burns's forthcoming Comin' 'Round the Mountain. So Widow Winnie Whipple, whose ineffectual attempts to land Uncle Ezra furnish continuity of a sort for the program, exclaimed "Hollywood my left hind foot!" and wept that he should turn out to be "nothin...