Word: dapperly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicholas Longworth, dapper Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, has as one of his official privileges the use of a fine automobile furnished by the U. S. government. Last week, he quipped: "I want a Republican Congress because I don't want Jack Garner riding about in my automobile." Jack Garner is John Nance Garner, hale, hard-working and humorous Representative from Texas, who would undoubtedly be the Democrats' choice forSpeaker. He is a good friend of Speaker Longworth, as is every one else of any importance in the House...
Smart, blase Deauville was almost surprised, last week, when dapper M. Andre Gustave Citroen, famed "Henry Ford of France," sat as judge upon a male fashion parade and upon a bevy of diving Adonises...
Rome. Observers marvelled, and wondered what Candidate Smith and his managers would think, when James John Walker, New York City's glib and dapper Mayor, rated to be as smart and faithful a supporter as the Brown Derby could have, touched upon a ticklish subject, in a public speech (to some Roman Catholics) as follows: "It is not so long since I was forced to listen to a tirade of a sort not unfamiliar to you, when a friend from one of the bucolic districts asked me if it were not a fact that all my public acts were...
...Road. Only a French journalist could chatter of White Slavery with such inoffensive skimming swiftness as Monsieur Albert Londres has attained in The Road to Buenos Ayres. The man is a magpie?a shrewd one?and a correspondent of Le Petit Parisien. When Argentine passport officials asked dapper Magpie Londres why he proposed to land at Buenos Aires, he blithely chirped: "Mes amis, I have come to see your souteneurs, your pimps...
...Inquisitor Walsh propounded a question of legal ethics, suggesting that plump, dapper, white-haired Lawyer Martin W. Littleton might well resign as Sinclair's lawyer. At Sinclair's last trial, Lawyer Littleton said that Sinclair was in no wise connected with the Continental Trading Co., a mysterious, short-lived oil-trading company out of whose profits, transformed into Liberty Bonds, the G. O. P. is now known to have received $160,000 from Sinclair for its Harding campaign deficit. Unless Lawyer Littleton lied to the jury, which Inquisitor Walsh felt was unthinkable, Sinclair must have lied...