Word: dapper
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...dapper young FBI man waved the customs inspectors aside. 'This is political. See that "good will" stuff painted on the body? Sounds like something out of Vishinsky...
...hoped to blow up a hurricane was 35-year-old Gene Moore, a dapper Manhattanite who works with 14 assistants in a cluttered hideaway at Fifth Avenue's sleek Bonwit Teller's. Every week Moore designs 21 new windows...
...country where the army would not intervene was Costa Rica, which last week replaced its army with a national police force. With dapper Junta President José Figueres swinging the first sledge, destruction of the battlements of Bellavista Barracks was begun. A National Museum will be built on the site, and the parade grounds will become a lush tropical garden...
...party big shots were there. Maurice Thorez, rosy-cheeked and beaming, wearing a grey business suit, slapped guests cordially on the back. Jacques Duclos, dapper in a black jacket and grey pants, cracked jokes, took no offense when a guest asked him, "What, no vodka?" Duclos cracked, back: "No, and no American whiskey, either." André Marty, the salty old mutineer, solicitously handed around plates of sandwiches, salted almonds and cookies...
Married. Emir Abdul Illah, 35, dapper, Anglophile regent and heir apparent to the throne of Iraq; and Fayza el Traboulsi, 22, daughter of a well-heeled Egyptian army officer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Bagdad...