Word: dapperly
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Once Mexicans went to church on Sunday. Now they parade the streets, cheer speeches by their labor leaders. One fine Sunday recently, 25,000 CTMists (Confederation of Mexican Workers) assembled before the National Palace in the capital to hear their labor boss, large-eared, dapper Vincente Lombardo Toledano, CTM Secretary General. Shouting, waving his arms, Orator Toledano hurled imprecations at the enemies of labor. The Mexicanos were enthusiastic, but not enough to suit Toledano. Dramatically pausing, the fiery-eyed labor leader leaned forward on the rostrum to grip his listeners once more. He was going to tell them something...
Almost as inappropriate as the hall's equipment in the alert eyes of the deaf-mutes, was the message from President Roosevelt read off to them on his nimble fingers by the N. A. D.'s dapper President Marcus Levi Kenner of Manhattan. Deaf-mutes applaud by waving their hands in the air, but the President's hope "that the present great activity in those branches of physics affecting acoustics may result in the development of vastly improved aids to hearing" caused only perfunctory gesticulations. Fact is that the nation's 100,000 stone deaf...
...dispensation of Providence for the benefit of the patriotic Society of St. Tammany. Tammany's serious troubles began in 1932 when the Democratic Governor of New York, Franklin Roosevelt, with his eye on the Presidency was obliged to investigate charges of graft and corruption against Tammany's dapper, wisecracking mayor, Jimmy Walker. When the hearing got too hot, Jimmy Walker resigned. Automatically Joseph V. McKee, president of the city's Board of Aldermen succeeded to the job and made motions of starting a cleanup. Then & there the current overlord of Tammany, Boss John Curry, made a mistake...
...brisk little Senator, dapper in a different suit each day, was too smart to indulge in any personal histrionics. He simply directed his actors, the witnesses. And like the good showman he is, Bob La Follette provided plenty of comic relief for what was otherwise, grim, gruesome business. The comedy was supplied by the Chicago police force...
...charge of the A.P. strike desk sits Lewis Andrew (''Andy") Brophy, dapper six-footer, day supervisor in the New York office, who made a name for himself by a two-hour beat on the Shenandoah dirigible crash. He got a broken ankle when his car turned over returning from the wreck. A.P. rewarded him with, among other things, a cane capped with inscribed metal from the dirigible...