Word: dapperly
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...Dapper gentlemen with quick eyes and imperturbable faces frequent, or used to frequent, a little restaurant at 50th Street and Broadway, Manhattan. They are gentlemen with varied interests-dog and horse racing, realty, baseball, politics, lady friends, perhaps a side line now and then in narcotics or stolen securities. They are, or were, interested in almost anything involving money in sums of ten to a hundred "grand" (thousand dollars), and some stimulating element of risk...
...Fight. The first audiences at The Big Fight were composed in large part of dapper and gruesome characters who in no way resembled the admirers of Gene Tunney. It is claimed that among the good qualities of its star, famed Pugilist Jack Dempsey, is the ability to remember persons who "remember him when...
Nicholas Longworth, dapper Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, has as one of his official privileges the use of a fine automobile furnished by the U. S. government. Last week, he quipped: "I want a Republican Congress because I don't want Jack Garner riding about in my automobile." Jack Garner is John Nance Garner, hale, hard-working and humorous Representative from Texas, who would undoubtedly be the Democrats' choice forSpeaker. He is a good friend of Speaker Longworth, as is every one else of any importance in the House...
Smart, blase Deauville was almost surprised, last week, when dapper M. Andre Gustave Citroen, famed "Henry Ford of France," sat as judge upon a male fashion parade and upon a bevy of diving Adonises...
Rome. Observers marvelled, and wondered what Candidate Smith and his managers would think, when James John Walker, New York City's glib and dapper Mayor, rated to be as smart and faithful a supporter as the Brown Derby could have, touched upon a ticklish subject, in a public speech (to some Roman Catholics) as follows: "It is not so long since I was forced to listen to a tirade of a sort not unfamiliar to you, when a friend from one of the bucolic districts asked me if it were not a fact that all my public acts were...