Word: dapperly
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Speeches. Before they left town, they laid eyes upon dapper Julian Starkweather Mason, editor of the New York Herald Tribune, heard him earnestly declare that their papers were "far better than college papers of a generation ago, and better than most of the newspapers throughout the country." They learned that it was "a heartening thing for us newspapermen to have such high school publications and students as you, who will come miles to hear practical newspaper people talk." They learned that there are exciting moments in newspaper offices and that, for Editor Mason, "these moments are full of loyalty, service...
...heroine, Mary Moore, is a creature of similar appearance, whose Wyoming nativity urges her into the wide open spaces of ex-Senator Bob Millar of that state.? Her cosmopolitan sophistication inclines to dapper young Count André de Servaise. Both men are out to marry money, of which Mary has little. A Wyoming interlude that might have been written by Elinor Glyn in collaboration with Harold Bell Wright and a Campfire Girl, eliminates Millar?and Mary's chastity. When she finally marries André, whose constancy does not soar above the average for Latins, she discovers the comfort resident in observing...
When the deft and dapper Caillaux crossed the ocean to settle for France, his business-like demeanor promised success. With the reign of common sense here prevailing, it almost seemed as if France's Phoenix were feigning America's go-get-it-iveness the better to suit its sovereign power. But after each side had laid a corner-stone, one at the North Pole and the other at the South, the structure collapsed at the Equator and floated blithely away to the Gold Coast...
...electric bulbs outside Promoter Tex Rickard's vast new sport arena in Manhattan blazoned a great name. Dapper dandies called up shingled dames and told them. Mayor Walker promised to occupy a ringside box. Ancient hooligans of the Roaring Forties cadged the entrance fee. Gorgeous Georges Carpentier motored over from his hotel. The bulbs were flaring forth: "Fitzsimmons...
Roused to fury, dapper Newton Diehl Baker, onetime Secretary of War, now a Cleveland lawyer and chief counsel for the merger proponents, snapped to his feet as soon as proceedings permitted, keen eyes sparkling, clipping words contrary to his usually calm setting forth of arguments as purely intellectual concepts, refuted charges and implications, recalled that "Desdemona's handkerchief in hands other than her own became a wanton's gift to her paramour in the eyes of her suspicious lord...