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Only one issue was at stake when some 2,000,000 button-eyed Filipinos went to the polls last week to elect a President: By how big a majority would they return frail, dapper little Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina to office...
Chicago's show owed its quality to a year of careful sifting and choosing by the Art Institute's dapper Director Daniel Catton Rich. Aware that artists are not always the best judges of their own work, Director Rich and a staff of assistants kept an eye on Manhattan exhibitions, spent months touring New England, the South and Southwest, to find exactly what they wanted. When Director Rich had finished, he had hand-picked 276 items of painting and sculpture by well-known and unknown U.S. artists...
...this relentless crusade, pink-faced, bright-eyed, dapper Dr. Charles Giffin Pease, dentist, teacher, founder and president of the Non-Smokers Protective League of America, was pursuing his idea of beauty. Said he: "Oh, if the human race would but live right, what a beautiful people the human race would...
...want to go into politics? Because I want to show the citizens of Cambridge that I can do a good clean job of government without being tied down by partisan interests," said the dapper young man between stampings. "I think I have a good chance of getting elected, even though if does mean covering practically every house in the city personally...
...Jinks. Although he was tremendously popular with his students, Dr. Welch never made intimate friends of any of them, not even Dr. Flexner, his favorite. For years no one dared call him Popsy to his face. Yet he did not act like a lonely, reserved bachelor -he was always dapper, always nimble on his little feet, always ready for fun. He loved carnival life: Coney Island, Hollywood, roller coasters, ice cream. He gorged himself on everything from terrapin to ham & eggs, ate from three to six desserts, became "irritated" if his friends stopped at one. An opera, painting, baseball...