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...Alfonse and Gaston," famed comic-strip Frenchmen in comical silk hats, came irresistibly to mind, last week as the Chamber debated with classic frenzy the fiscal policy to be pursued by France. Finance Minister Caillaux, a bald and dapper "Gaston," outlined with deadly earnestness in a high pitched squeaky voice the keynotes of his plan to save the franc...
...their special talents and proclivities are by now all cataloged. There is not much news left in them. Yet last week newsgatherers found it necessary to invade the McCormick privacy just once more. Mrs. Cyrus Jr. had done a thing that is almost never done. She had sent her dapper secretary into the Manhattan terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad to order her a special train to Chicago, a fast one, to leave at once, immediately. The railroad was astonished, but efficient none the less. A very fast train whisked Mrs. Cyrus Jr. to Chicago in the record time...
...Have you no reservation, sir?" It is a stock question in certain "Goyim" (Christian) hotels which discriminate against Jews. The dapper clerk, a trained ethnologist, addresses it to any prospective guest whose name, dress, manners or lineaments might indicate that he is a Jew. U. S. Jews, many of them wealthy, finely educated, have heard this question, turned away from the desk, and had the bellboy carry their bags back to the taxicab...
Judge Toereky prudently refrained from prying into the nature of these "motives." Instead he called another prisoner, a dapper little man with his hair cut in the German fashion, a nervous but determined young man, who clenched and brandished a cane in one hand while he gesticulated with the other. This was Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz, a descendant of the "Holy Roman Emperors...
Orator "Red" Robinson is slender and dapper. Dullards who judge by appearances alone might take him for a dancing man, a talkative "cake-eater."* Than which nothing could be more misguided. He is a state champion pole-vaulter, a college basketball captain of all-Western calibre. When they heard he had won the oratorical title, his college mates rushed to prepare a demonstration at the railroad station. He had joined the distinguished roster of national intercollegiate eloquence champions, a roster including an author, a bishop, a governor, senators (including the late LaFollette, the retired Beveridge), six college presidents and many...