Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the election of crooked, dapper Mayor Jimmy Walker in 1926, Jimmy Hines's big days were at hand. In his unostentatious apartment on West 111th Street, Walker Man Hines received long lines of favor seekers and job hunters. Dispensing money, making "contracts," Jimmy ran his quickly growing empire with smiling aplomb and efficient service. Smarting under Al Smith's attempt to run Tammany, Hines backed Franklin Roosevelt for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932, won a fat reward that left Tammany with tongue drooping; F.D.R. handed him the job of dispensing all federal patronage in Manhattan...
Nevertheless, on Monday, October 15, William J. Brennan, whom one friend describes as "the friendly Irish type, dapper and jaunty" will take his place with the eight other "Old Men." Although the motives behind his appointment and the timing and wisdom of the appointment itself remain somewhat of a mystery, it must nevertheless be hoped that the new Justice will fill the shoes of Sherman Minton...
Family & Personality: Married 28 years, he is the father of three: William J. III, 23, a Marine Corps lieutenant; Hugh L., 20, a part-time college student; Nancy, 7. An affable, storytelling Irishman, Brennan has been called jaunty, dapper, lacking the austere aspect commonly associated with Justices. A much-sought after-dinner speaker, he also plays duffer golf (low 100s), likes to read American history, Plato, dime novels. Said his happy wife this week: "On Friday afternoon my husband called me from the office and said there was a telegram from the Attorney General. It said something about 'Come...
...Jivester. To a chance acquaintance, dapper, potbellied Hussein Suhrawardy would seem an unlikely choice for so forbidding a job. A widower he shuns liquor and tobacco but likes feminine companionship, nightclubs and rumbaing till dawn. He has a concrete dance floor on the roof of his Karachi house, and his record collection includes 1,200 U.S. dance records. When he isn't on the dance floor, Suhrawardy spends most of his time at home in a small bedroom furnished with twin beds. On one he sleeps; on the other, which is piled high with files, telephone books, old magazines...
...Byroade in precarious Nasser-land: Raymond Arthur Hare, 55, Director General of the Foreign Service since 1954, an old Mid-East specialist with embassy service in Beirut, Teheran, Cairo and Jidda in the 1930s and '40s, as ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Lebanon in 1950 and '53. Dapper Ray Hare, who looks like Ronald Colman, has a profound knowledge of Arab society and economic life, but no previous ties with Nasser, hence symbolizes a fresh, new era of U.S.-Egyptian policy...