Word: dapper
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...strolled the streets hatless, admiring the colonial architecture while other tourists and townspeople admired him. In New Orleans he asked his chauffeur to stop the car so he could hear the jazz throbbing out of the bistros. In Austin, Tex. even his musicians got a surprise. Their usually dapper maestro, for the first time within memory, rehearsed them in shirtsleeves...
...would inform me in what sense you used the adjective "pert." I have consulted my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and find myself confounded. The early meanings run "open, unconcealed, manifest." A very early (and pleasant) usage is translated as "beautiful." Later, the meaning became "smart, dapper." From there we go on to "sharp, intelligent, adroit and clever." And if this were not enough, to "forward in speech and behavior, saucy, cheeky and malapert." After that the S.O.E.D. proclaims that pert "may be used as a vague expression of disfavor." Comes now, "bold," followed by "esp. in a bad sense...
...Block. Titular principal of Coca-Cola's vast educational institution is ex-Democratic Boss James A. Farley, chairman of the board of the Coca-Cola Export Corp. But the boss of the Export Corp. is its president, slight, dapper James Curtis, who has spent nearly 27 of his 48 years with the company and whose gentle New Orleans drawl makes "Coca-Cola" sound like a whispered caress...
Died. Ralph Greenleaf, 50, dapper, 16-time world champion of pocket billiards; of bronchial pneumonia; in Philadelphia. Greenleaf, who did for pool what Babe Ruth did for baseball, set an official world's record in 1929 of 126 balls without a miss, once, in an exhibition match, pocketed 269 straight balls...
Legrand, 56, does not seem the sort of man to drift about the desert on a camel. Dapper and urbane, he sports a neatly clipped little mustache and a lavender-scented breast-pocket handkerchief, confesses an abiding love for good Parisian food and old brandy. But he loves Morocco more and, except for annual business trips to Paris, plans to stay there. "There are two kinds of time," he explains, "European and African. In Europe you count time by the year; in Africa you count it by thousands of years. The land and the people of Morocco are primitive...