Word: swank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boastful William Bioff, who lives at pseudo-swank Malibu Beach, drives a sleek Fierce-Arrow, frequents hotspots on his $110 a week, $12 a day expenses, bragged that I.A.T.S.E. had cost film producers $6,000,000 a year. Said Bioff: "Communist groups . . . are responsible for charges . . . under investigation here." The audience booed. "There they are," he said, "they're all Communists...
...arms. This was for the use of King Leopold III of the Belgians, whose state visit went off in glittering, uneventful style as scheduled (TIME, Nov. 22). At the last moment before the state ball there was substituted for the Royal Artillery Band, which even courtiers have called "lousy," swank Marshall's Orchestra. For the first time at Buckingham Palace the crowned heads danced at the same time as the 1,200 guests, whereas previously they have always danced first on a cleared floor, then seated themselves and watched their guests dance...
...London's leftist tipster sheet The Week had Greece's King George "afraid he has cancer. His mother Queen Sophie died of it. And before that her mother too. ... If the British doctors' opinion is unfavorable, then the King will abdicate in January." At dingy but swank Brown's Hotel, where George II was staying, Leopold III called and Their Majesties took...
...Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig died at his family home in Darmstadt, Germany, withdrew arrangements for a fashionable wedding but next day pushed through a private, hushed affair. With bridal costumes hurriedly changed to sombre black, the ceremony was performed before 50 sombre guests in London's swank St. Peter's Church, Eaton Square...
...Elkins Park, an otherwise undistinguished suburb of Philadelphia, Millionaire Joseph Early Widener occupies a stiff Georgian mansion known as Lynnewood Hall. Leathery, spick & span Mr. Widener owns one of the crack racing stables of the world, has Godfathered two swank racetracks-Long Island's Belmont Park and Miami's Hialeah. Less familiar facts about Sportsman Widener are that his Lynnewood Hall contains the choicest private collection of Old Masters in the U. S., that he himself is a cultural servant of Philadelphia. In that capacity last week 64-year-old "Joe" Widener became the centre...