Word: dapperly
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...York's dapper, smart-cracking Mayor James John Walker, between whom and Mr. Smith little love is left, gave his support to the district leaders. Mr. Curry's election followed. Said Boss Curry: "It's the same old Tammany. ... I have always been opposed to vice and gambling...
...wide semicircle of trenches was dug south of Jiminez railway station. There the insurrectos piled in and waited for the army of dapper General Almazan, plodding across the desert...
General John Joseph Pershing, changed by Time and the War from hardboiled brigadier to dapper boulevardier, stepped with his crisp cock-robin stride from the Place de la Concorde into the ornate lobby of the Hotel Crillon. An excited reporter from the Paris Herald rushed...
Patrick Jay Hurley of Tulsa, Okla., to be Assistant Secretary of War. Mr. Hurley, dapper, trim, cheerful, born in the old Indian Territory 46 years ago, began his military career as a captain in the Indian Territorial Volunteer Militia. During the War he fought through three major offensives, was cited for gallantry at Louppy, won the D. S. M. A trained lawyer, he has enriched himself in Oklahoma real estate, Tulsa banking. He is married to the daughter of Admiral Henry Braid Wilson...
...months they had awaited last week's concerts. It seemed only meet that Toscanini should realize it but he accepted his thunderous ovation a little impatiently. He turned his dapper back as soon as he decently could, tapped smartly on a cellist's music-rack and began the business of the evening...