Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, though, the Bensinger regulars put aside their cards and pool cues to crowd into the twin grandstands of the exhibition arena and watch dapper Willie Mosconi, 41, take on putty-nosed Joe Procita, 56, for the world's championship in pocket billiards, better known as pool...
...look doubtfully at the copy of Sports Illustrated lying beside your sewing basket, Virginia. This is not the dapper-looking, sharp-eyed man with his arms full of cigarette cartons and whiskey bottles that you've been seeing pictures of. This man is old and fat and bumbling, and does not look very assertive. His is not booming out hardy greetings, but is wistfully picking up his lost buttons and rubbing the soot off his well-worn suit...
Never had Anthony Eden seemed more quietly confident or the Tory faithful more pleased with him. In Blackpool's Empress ballroom, 4,100 delegates to the annual Tory Party conference gave him a two-minute ovation and burst into For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Even dapper Julian Amery, who last year led the diehard imperialists in an attack on Eden's decision to evacuate Suez, had only praise for Eden's achievements at the London Conference: "Far from renouncing our imperial mission, this gives us the chance to lead the world once more...
Ordinarily, the dapper little man in the paddock only had sour scorn for hunch players. But hunch shook him hard that afternoon in Chicago when a horse pulled up in the walking ring and looked him square in the face. "If ever a horse told anyone he was going to win, that horse told me," says Handicapper Hugh Matheson. "I went over and got a bet down on his nose. When I told my wife, she was furious. 'That goat,' she exploded, 'That goat...
Solemnly holding a copy of the only Bible ever approved by an American Congress,* dapper, dark-haired Lawrence Quincy Mumford, 50, last week swore to perform faithfully one of the most arduous bookkeeping jobs the world has to offer. As the new Librarian of Congress (appointed last April by President Eisenhower), Mumford will preside over the world's largest storehouse of the written word-31,692,000 pieces, including 9,000,000 books, 13 million manuscripts and 412,000 records...