Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parade, which started in the Back Bay and wound its way to Faneuil Hall and the North End, turned into a contest of banners, balloons, placards, and shouting matches. It ended in a scuffle between a drunken supporter of Flynn and Boston City Councilor Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, who had just shaken hands with Finnegan...
...close observer of the unexceptional: businessmen of Cork, aging maidens from the provinces, London office workers and suburban matrons. They are mostly people who are meeting or avoiding their responsibilities with only an occasional glimpse of their destinies. Trevor has a soft spot for the elderly, like the dapper old soldier in The General's Day who attempts to pick up a younger woman only to learn, at the moment his hand brushes her knee, that he never was a serious contender...
...three hours last week Bevin and British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the British Embassy gardens in Paris, comparing notes. Then Premier Paul Ramadier and dapper, London-tailored Foreign Minister Georges Bidault arrived with their experts. Eleven French and eleven Britons got their heads together over the veal, adjourned to the garden veranda later for whiskey, brandy, and more happy talk...
Such spectaculars have become a hallmark of France's lavish new investment in the arts, and the personal signature of Mitterrand's flamboyant and popular Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, 43.* Dapper in his close-cut suits, possessed of boyish good looks and dark curls that seem to stir women, Lang has ambitious plans for the arts in Socialist France. "Our goal," he says, "is to transform all of France into a cultural work site." The transformation of the budget has been dramatic. In 1981, under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the Ministry of Culture...
This has some fairly horrifying implications?till death do us part, for one?but it is so close to character that it is too bad that Whitaker, at 42 an acknowledged star among royal-watchers, did not really say it. The dapper Whitaker has concentrated on the royal family for 14 years?in the process, he says contentedly, traveling around the world several times and moving at increasingly fatter salaries from the Daily Mail to the Express to the Sun to the Star, and finally to the Mirror. He likes the royals. "They all mean a great deal...