Word: semiswank
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...into a 117-jetliner network spanning 107 North American cities and including Brussels and London. But the company had strayed seriously from the keep-it-simple formulas that had made People a case study at business schools across the U.S. Only nine weeks after People installed a semiswank VIP lounge in its dowdy North Terminal at Newark, the company was on the verge of becoming a casualty of the very same fare- cutting wars that it had provoked...
Mary Louise Peck's impersonation of the Maid of Orleans was part of a pageant given last fortnight at semiswank Atlantic Beach Club on Long Island. Most of them scantily clad to represent such characters as Messalina, Mae West and Pocahontas, the performers included Swimmer Helen Meany, a semi-nude showgirl and that most formidable and ubiquitous of socialites. Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken. To dine and see the pageant 251 persons had bought tickets at $7.50 each and, to give the spectacle an air of righteous charity, the profits, if any, were to go to a local fire department...
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