Word: dapperly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dapper gentlemen with quick eyes and imperturbable faces frequent, or used to frequent, a little restaurant at 50th Street and Broadway, Manhattan. They are gentlemen with varied interests-dog and horse racing, realty, baseball, politics, lady friends, perhaps a side line now and then in narcotics or stolen securities. They are, or were, interested in almost anything involving money in sums of ten to a hundred "grand" (thousand dollars), and some stimulating element of risk...
...42nd Street, all around the little restaurant, is a forest of "broadminded" hotels where a man can keep a girl or a case of liquor or organize a fairly professional gambling game. Word would go to the little restaurant : "Room such-and-such, Hotel so-and-so." The dapper gentlemen played only among themselves, or with sports like themselves who would blow in from other big cities to "take that mob over the jumps...
...dapper gentlemen, none was more inspired and self-confident than Arnold Rothstein, a sleek Jew inclining to flesh in his late forties. Hotel managers fawned on him, because he owned a hotel himself. Newspaper editors disliked to call him "gambler" when he got into the news. The New York World used to euphemize and call him an "operator," knowing well that many another citizen gambled as often though perhaps not so daringly as Rothstein. He won a few hundred "grand" on this year's World's Series-a contest which he was said to have "fixed...
...Mayor. A dapper, quick-eyed gentleman in an easy chair at the City Hall-a Manhattanite with sporting instincts not unlike Rothstein's except that his gambling is in votes and publicity-could stand it no longer. Once before, under deadly parallel circumstances, a Mayor of New York had lost caste when a gambler's murderers were brought to justice slowly during his administration.* So Mayor James John Walker called for his Police Commissioner and gave him a certain number of days to get "action...
...Fight. The first audiences at The Big Fight were composed in large part of dapper and gruesome characters who in no way resembled the admirers of Gene Tunney. It is claimed that among the good qualities of its star, famed Pugilist Jack Dempsey, is the ability to remember persons who "remember him when...