Word: dapper
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Ever shrouded in discretion are proceedings of the French Academy, but each new "Immortal" is supposed to make a speech and his words are always released. Recently dapper General Max Weygand, "Savior of Poland" (1920) and successor in French popular esteem to the late, great...
Such was the biggest, best & boldest promise made last week by small, dapper Don Carlos Guillermo Davila whose recent coup d'ètat set up Chile's new Government (TIME, June...
...were to be those 16 Irish gentlemen who will carry the Canopy of the Blessed Sacrament in the procession, among whom would be: President de Valera, Vice President Sean Thomas O'Kelly, ex-President William Thomas Cosgrave, Speaker Francis Patrick Fahy, Senate Chairman Thomas William Westropp Bennett, and dapper, jimmy-walkeresque Lord Mayor Alfred Byrne of Dublin...
...present, only dapper little Roy Howard (Scripps-Howard) and Harry Preston Wolfe of the Columbus (Ohio) Evening Dispatch failed to lift an arm. Scripps-Howard chainpapers had vigorously cudgeled the issue when it was before Congress in March. Final agreement of the publishers, however, was that they would support a Sales Tax if the President would personally sponsor...
...France & Foam-ite Corp.) or President William O'Neil of General Tire & Rubber Co., both of whom contributed heavily to Equitable's $282,000 promotion fund. Two weeks before, Mr. O'Neil had testified that he and most of the Equitable promoters had joined the dapper Mayor at a merry "old clothes" party the night after Equitable's franchise was gaveled through by the Mayor...