Word: dapper
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...declared the dapper Cab, "five shows a day is a pretty big order. You've got to keep yourself in the pink to do it. No alcoholic lubrication for the voice, you know...
Merry-Go-Round: General Douglas MacArthur, dapper Chief of Staff . . . is the real boss of the War Department today. Although it went out over Secretary Dern's signature, MacArthur was the real author of the Army's $115,000,000 Public Works program calling for ammunition and ordnance purchases. General: Meaning . . . that plaintiff was dictatorial and guilty of insubordination and disrespect to a superior officer, the Secretary...
...Handsome, dapper Capt. Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal of Britain, and White Hope of the Foreign Office, is sent to Paris, Berlin, and Rome to explain in private conversations the advantages of the British Plan for the peace of Europe. Berlin and Rome are cordial, but the newly installed Doumergue cabinet in Paris refuses to budge. Before France will agree to any disarmament she insists that international control over Germany's rearmament be installed, that Nazi Storm Troops and other semimilitary bodies be dissolved...
Societe Anonyme André Citroën was heavy on the Paris Bourse one day last week. In a fortnight the stock had tobogganed from 500 francs per share to 260. Andre Citroen, the bald, dapper little "Ford of France," was in swift financial waters. From one excited broker to another sped reports of a general creditors' meeting at the Bank of France. Finally the Agence Economique et Financiére, the Dow, Jones & Co. of Paris, rumbled authoritatively...
...debut as an educator last fortnight when he became president of Olivet College (enrollment: 200) in Olivet, Mich (pop. 566). Last week he made his first presidential bow with a Founder's Day speech celebrating Olivet's 90th birthday. Son of a Grand Rapids banker, delicately dapper President Brewer took degrees a Dartmouth and Oxford, was private secretary to the late Editor John St. Lot-Strachey of the London Spectator for four years, helped found the short-lived Manhattan publishing firm of Brewer, Warren & Putnam...