Word: dapper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Decherd will be replaced by Dapper Dan Swanson. Swanson plans to revolutionize the Crimson attack...
...Samuel Koffler, 66, is a dapper Chicago importer who grew up in a Jewish enclave of Harlem. He has donated $1,000 to the McGovern campaign and plans to give more. "What concerns me," he says, "is that Nixon and his Government treat us as chattels, as if this country were their own special province and they lead us to do what is right for them. We are spending $80 billion a year on defense, and frankly I don't feel any safer." The specifics of McGovern's proposals don't concern Koffler. "I've learned not to pay attention...
...paid nearly $700,000 for an 878-ton yacht that carries a crew of 30, and has put more than $1,000,000 worth of improvements into it, including $48,000 worth of teleprinter equipment to keep him in communication with the world's financial centers. A dapper figure with a neatly trimmed beard, Hyams owns a fleet of fast sports cars, raises pheasant and regularly throws hunting parties for a small circle of close friends...
...knows how many young girls flock to the Village each year; estimates range up to 500 or higher. About 80% are white, and most are from out of state. The girls are easy pickings for the alert, dapper, slick-talking pimps, who find them around hamburger joints, huddled in doorways, cruising Washington Square Park on Sundays. Some even get picked up on arrival at the Port Authority bus terminal. Sometimes the girls are kidnaped outright, like Chickie. More often they are hungry, discouraged, possibly drug-addicted, ready for the smooth stud in the broad-brimmed hat whispering promises of food...
Melvin Belli, 64, the dapper and orotund lawyer who has had a lifelong love affair with the public eye, was visiting Washington's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts when a hostess singled him out. "You're a very famous lawyer, aren't you?" asked pretty Lia Triff, 23, a student at the University of Maryland. Belli beamed. "Your name begins with a B," said Miss Triff. Belli swelled with such pleasure that, as Lia put it later, "I couldn't resist. I said: 'I've got it -you're F. Lee Bailey...