Word: dapperly
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...shouldn't I interview Stalin?" the rich and dapper little son of an Ohio railway conductor asked himself recently in Paris. Stalin is the son of a blacksmith. In Paris the conductor's son grabbed a telephone, called Moscow, asked the U. S. Embassy if the blacksmith's son would consent to see him, took a train for Moscow...
...Beach's No. 1 estate for the No. 1 party of the winter thronged some 400 guests to sip champagne, eat strawberry ice, listen as Banker Edward Townsend Stotesbury celebrated his 87th birthday by rattling a snare drum as he did in the Civil War. A hale, hearty, dapper little man, Host Stotesbury, Philadelphia's richest tycoon, senior partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., was also persuaded to sing his favorite song. The Old Family Toothbrush that Hangs in the Sink...
...Vagabond came dashing into the Crimson building about six thirty last night, his hair disheveled, his the awry, and his clothes generally askew. On his face there was the look of a hunted man. The genial smile which usually characterizes the dapper old fellow was lost in an expression that can be described only as haunted. Terror, sheer stark terror gleamed in his eyes...
AGREAT DEAL of carping has been done about the inaccuracies of fact in Lucius Beebe's charming picture of Boston in "Boston and the Boston Legend." The dapper young Herald-Tribune feature writer has muffed a few punches, it is true, in his informal history of this most enigmatic of American cities. He has one or two distinguished natives living in the Back Bay when he should have said Beacon Hill and, according to more scholarly authorities, he has slipped up on some of his dates. But his book is too intrinsically fascinating and alive to be hurt much...
Seemingly unconcerned was Gaetano Merola, the dapper irrepressible Italian who against all odds founded the San Francisco company in 1922. Impresario Merola defined the deficit as an asset, symbol of the scenic equipment which he has been steadily acquiring. While San Franciscans worried over President Alexander's pronouncement, Merola was flitting about Manhattan last week, hearing new singers, considering new contracts...