Word: dapperly
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...dapper doctor was found crouching behind a furnace, the women were led back to bed. With his secretary, maid and receptionist, the doctor was carted off to jail. So ended a raid on one of Manhattan's biggest abortion mills...
...Washington dapper Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles telephoned equally dapper Ambassador Felipe Espil of Argentina and Brazilian Ambassador Carlos Martins. The three went into a huddle, emerged with a stopgap proposal: Peru and Ecuador should each withdraw 15 kilometers (9½ mi.) from their present frontier stations, cease hostilities, submit their dispute once more to Argentine-Brazilian-U.S. mediation...
...Washington last week, Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky was all over the place. Short, garrulous, dapper in his white suit, white shirt, white shoes, he was trying to make up in two days for his two years of isolation after the Hitler-Stalin pact-and doing a good...
...Blond, dapper John L. Sullivan, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, told newsmen that these tax certificates will probably come in denominations starting at $1 or $5, will bear interest (probably 2%) in the form of a discount, like defense bonds. Treasury officials said the certificates will not be transferable or subject to use as collateral for bank loans. Thus banks and private investors will not be able to buy in quantity for investment...
...neatest little spy stories ever uncovered broke into print last week in Los Angeles. Arrested by FBI men were two dapper little Japanese and Al Blake. U.S. citizen. Al turned out to be no spy but a hero: he had pulled off an amateur job of counter-espionage that would have made a professional spy turn green with envy...