Word: swank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Communists reached for the leadership of Britain's Squatter Movement (TIME, Sept. 2). Into two blocks of swank Kensington flats and eight adjoining buildings they led a small army of families who have been living in crowded conditions reminiscent of Moscow. Said Communist Party headquarters: "Regardless of any official warning, we are determined to get 10,000 of our members into decent houses immediately." This week, Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee called an agitated special Cabinet meeting to consider the emergency...
...pounds beyond the legal limit. In London's Bow Street police court, Lady Stanley (who likes her friends to call her "Portia") pleaded guilty. Beside her, booked on the same charge, stood fiftyish Anton Bon, who likes his friends to call him "Major." Manager of London's swank Dorchester Hotel Ltd., he has made his establishment the Royal Family's favorite spot for social appearances. "Major" Bon also pleaded guilty. For Portia and her co-defendants British justice was unseasoned with mercy. The fines: Lady Stanley, ?2,500; Bon, ?2,650; Dorchester Hotel...
...worry, Mrs. Shuttle, I'll take it for you,' and he marches through the shop into the kitchen with the goods. Now there ain't many people who'd do that for you, lord or no lord. They be fine people, the Digbys, got no swank with them either, friendly as you please. And there's no doubt about it," adds Mrs. Shuttle, "he could sell that fruit at twice the price. I bought a peach from him for sixpence that would have cost me one and six in Dorchester...
...wants to be a separate member of the Federation. The French, who had agreed to all other Viet Nam demands, said no. Ho walked out of the conference, and while his guerrillas continued to kill French soldiers almost daily, holed up in his flower-littered suite at Paris' swank Royal Monceau Hotel...
...poisoned cake. Two days later, the outbreak had turned into a citywide protest against profiteering and high prices, a demand for a 50% slash in prices or else. Thousands of cariocas, armed with bricks and clubs, took vengeance on the places they could not afford to patronize. The swank Roxy Theater, showing Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, had its glass front smashed, its lobby wrecked...