Word: swank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, the new edition of the Social Register revealed that Franklin Delano Roosevelt no longer belonged to the Tory Knickerbocker Club, that Mrs. Roosevelt no longer belonged to the swank Colony Club...
...fashionable is what Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, 33-year-old son of a London coal & lumber merchant, possesses in a degree so extreme as to make plain people squirm. To the fastidious world of Mayfair, however, Photographer Beaton's delicate infusions of the cockeyed into the swank have long seemed divine. After a gala summer, including a trip to Cande to make exclusive portraits for Vogue of his friend the Duchess of Windsor and a visit to his friend Mrs. Harrison ("Best Dressed") Williams at her villa on Capri, slim Cecil Beaton was in Manhattan this week a-tiptoe...
...suave as O'Keeffe but not so austere were the portraits by Russian Pavel Tchelitchew in the swank, palette-shaped Julien Levy Gallery. A studious but fashionable virtuoso, Painter Tchelitchew showed Manhattanites a notable grab bag of tricks, from Byzantine golden backgrounds to the academic delicacies of silverpoint...
Greenville, Del. Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co. does not consider its "Old Hickory'' product a table salt. Primarily for curing farm-killed pork, "Old Hickory'' has recently been discovered to possess a pleasing "hammy" flavor, especially good in soups; is sold only by a few swank grocers, such as Philadelphia's John Wagner & Sons, in 4-oz. bottles...
...complete harmony as they sing. Last April Rev. Dr. John Mockridge, ruddy high-church rector of Philadelphia's patrician St. James's Episcopal Church, had 30 boy sopranos selected from 97 applicants in Philadelphia public schools, put them at his congregation's expense in the swank Episcopal Academy on City Line Avenue. Further weeding brought the group down to 20. Dr. Mockridge taught the boys the Episcopal service, had them attend his church in a body every Sunday during their training period. Last week for the first time St. James's congregation heard its prot...