Word: dapperly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best-known policeman in France is dapper, jovial Jean Chiappe, Paris's bowler-hatted Prefect. Last week the second best-known French policeman, meticulous Gaston Edmond Bayle, was shot three times in the back and died instanter...
...month ago the escaped Rabano, now a dapper, perfumed Cuban racketeer, was arrested in Tampa, Fla. Five Cuban judges gravely reviewed the 16-year-old story of Emilia Garcia's false teeth, sentenced Ziolo Rabano to death by garrote...
More than 1,000 people crowded into Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week to attend a banquet in honor of a Chiropractor. Otto Hermann Kahn, financier and music patron, lauded the Chiropractor. So did William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. So did dapper James John Walker, mayor and candidate for mayor of New York City. Finally the Chiropractor himself arose and talked about ''the mechanization of the art." To the art of kneading and pummeling spines he did not refer, but to the art of Music. For the speaker was Joseph N. Weber...
...evenings later she seems to relent. She has Jencic take her to the Arcade. But this is only to excite jealousy in Louie, her latest. Dark and dapper, Louie steps up to Jencic, who just stands there like a block of wood, patient and talkative. Louie punches him on the jaw. Sitting on the sidewalk, hulking Jencic looks up with sick eyes, whispering...
Twenty years ago dapper, whiskered Augusto B. Leguia was President of Peru. A band of rebels, irked at his administration, entered the presidential palace by stealth and kidnaped him. Slim-waisted, short-legged, he was no match at all for his captors. Before the alarm could be given he had been hustled off to Inquisition Square some blocks away. There a written resignation was thrust into his hand. He was ordered to sign on pain of death...