Word: swank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sole and unofficial host. Major H. M. Cunningham, superintendent of the Ford assembly plant alongside the Potomac in nearby Alexandria, Va. In Major Cunningham's Lincoln, the party purred past the Alexandria home of John L. Lewis, through the plant grounds, and back to Washington's swank Shoreham hotel, where Mr. Ford was lodged at $16 for the day in a two-room suite done in modernistic grey and yellow...
...Ambassador Hugh Robert Wilson, complained that during the last five weeks she had tramped through 102 Berlin houses, could not find one suitable for the Embassy. Reason: to make room for Government buildings, Nazi city planners have razed residential structures, thereby creating an acute housing shortage in the swank Tiergarten district, where the diplomatic colony likes to live...
...Angeles, San Francisco., Minneapolis, Detroit, Princeton and New Haven to celebrate the 80th anniversary of their remarkable preparatory school. In Chicago they heard the school highly praised by University of Chicago's hard- to-please President Robert Maynard Hutchins. Little Lake Forest Academy (180 students), in a swank Chicago suburb, is remarkable not for its plant (valued at only $750,000) or ivied tradition (although it is one of the oldest prep schools in the Midwest) but for its long, angular headmaster, John Wayne ("Big Dick") Richards. Major reason for last week's celebration was Big Dick...
...Harrison; 2) as a Presidential widow she has been a the expense of attending various functions, notably the Republican National Convention of 1936; 3) the Government pensions the widows of war veterans who married long after their period of service. In Manhattan where she lives in a small swank Fifth Avenue apartment with one maid, Mary Lord Harrison said nothing whatever...
Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld, a thousand-acre open space, long the Fatherland's proudest parade ground, was made over into Europe's crack airport five years after the War. Fifteen minutes' taxi ride away is the heart of the German capital, swank hotels like the Kaiserhof, Adlon, Esplanade. Though still one of the most modern airports in the world Tempel-hofer's buildings last week were ready for destruction to make way for an even more colossal port. It is calculated to serve the biggest commercial planes of the century ahead, and to function...