Word: dapper
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...Dapper in his modish suit, his silver hair carefully coiffed, Garner Ted Armstrong looked out from the television screen last week and talked to his nationwide audience about their eyes liquefying, their bodies vaporizing and their cities vanishing in a nuclear holocaust. The "end times," he warned, were near. Garner Ted and his father, Herbert W. Armstrong, are the watchful guardians of Pasadena's Worldwide Church of God, a clannish, bizarre, 40-year-old sect (TIME, May 15, 1972) that has made the end times something of a stock in trade. Now it appears that Founder Herbert and Heir...
...those who wear double-knit suits off the rack and monograms, which he regards as "manifestations of insecurity." He devoted an entire column recently to upbraiding a Los Angeles physician who had tried to crash Boston's proper Ritz bar in a Cardin turtleneck. A city councilor, Albert ("Dapper") O'Neil, has filed suit against him for $1 million because of Frazier's gibes at the crease in O'Neil's trousers...
...slender, dapper man, so vain that he refused to carry a wallet or even a pocketful of change lest unsightly bulges spoil the line of his bespoke suit. More of the truth about Samuel Goldwyn was revealed by his actual appearance than by his popular image as the archetypal movie mogul-ignorant, tyrannical, malaprop-spewing...
...particular weight falls on O'Neill by default of the other two key Democrats in the drama. Many House Republicans believe that New Jersey Congressman Peter W. Rodino, the dapper Judiciary Committee chairman, has already prejudged Nixon's guilt and is determined to impeach him. The Republicans' respect for O'Neill, and their knowledge that Rodino leans heavily on the floor leader for advice, helps offset those suspicions. House Speaker Albert, who tends to shrink from the enormity of impeachment, also looks to O'Neill. Says one senior member of the House...
...addition to Mancuso, police arrested Domenico Barbino, 26, a dapper, handsome hospital orderly at Rome's Policlinico Gemelli, who had moved to the capital from Calabria ten years ago. Police suspect that Barbino dealt in drugs, a sideline that brought him into contact with young Getty and his circle of hippie friends who clustered around Rome's swinging Piazza Navona...