Word: dapperly
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Almost twelve hours after he had legally become Mayor, Jimmy Walker, dapper and swagger, descended from his car in front of the City Hall. The crowd was tremendous. As it surged around him he grinned: "Let me in, I want to go to work." Every room in the building was crowded. In one of the largest, crowded with 700 or 800 people, Mayor Walker took the oath a second time, then Mr. Hylan spoke. When he had done, the Mayor spoke, saying: "I, too, Judge Hylan, am very happy today." Then he began to read his prepared address. Before...
King Alfonso, dapper and blandly smiling, welcomed the new Cabinet and proceeded to sign the parchments which gave it authority. He made valid a royal decree repealing that under which the Directorate has flourished; he gave legal status to the acts of the new Cabinet...
...interpreter (for Mr. Gatti-Casazza understands English but slowly and speaks it more slowly still) led them down a corridor to his office, one reporter hung behind, then dashed to a window and peered down just in time to see the door of the big car close behind a dapper, short and quick-moving man in a derby...
Mitchell Kennerley, President of the Anderson Galleries, returned, dapper and beaming, from London where he had engineered his sensa tional coup to bring the Leverhulme collection to the U. S. He was willing to talk about it, a little. . . . Yes, the sale had been an nounced for London, all plans made, before the trustees of Lever-hulme's estate changed their minds and sent him a cable. What had made them change their minds...
...sound of these loudly spoken words will echo in the ears of sober Boston for a long time after "The Show-Off" leaves town. And with the sound will go the memory of flashy clothes, a dapper moustache and a pose half like Napoelon and half like a peacock parade...