Word: dapperly
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...first time O'Daniel has tough and brainy opposition: stubby, dapper James V. Allred and high-domed, serious Dan Moody, both former governors with large present followings...
After two years the police became impatient, suggested surrender. Daudet barricaded himself in L'Action offices, surrounded by hysterical young members of the Camelots du Roi (King's Henchmen). For three days the Camelots hurled jeers and inkpots at the police. Then dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe appeared in his yellow gloves, backed by several hundred gendarmes and three fire engines. Daudet yielded and was ensconced in a comfortable cell in the Prison de la Sante, where he was permitted meals prepared by Mme. Daudet...
...Lozovsky-the "dapper bearded man who, as a ragged eight-year-old urchin, sold matches and lemons on the streets of a small village far from Moscow...
Approval of this procedure came from such airmen as China's dapper Major General Shen Teh-hsieh, commander of Chinese "Thunderbirds" now training in Arizona. He also reported that, in order to bomb Japan and nearby shipping lanes, China now had the airfields, ground crews and pilots, needed only planes...
...small, greying man in a dapper blue suit, arriving at Washington's Union Station, knew what kind of peace the voice was talking about. And Manuel Quezon knew where the voice came from; he knew his people would never submit. "They will come out of the hills where they are hiding and they will fight as long as they have one bullet left...