Word: swank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baie de Chaleur, touring fishermen could still catch salmon, measured in feet, not inches. At Murray Bay's swank Manoir Richelieu, the service was still superb, and there was more than enough fun to go around...
...swank banquet room of the Hotel Vancouver, 170 new Soviet citizens sat down last week to eat a $2.50 dinner of bouillon, roast chicken, green peas, ice cream and coffee...
Sweet-singing Mary Bethune and her girls entertained at swank Daytona hotels, passing a hat after each performance. One day a sewing-machine tycoon dropped in a $20 bill. He followed it up by visiting Mrs. Bethune's school, and eventually left it $67,000 in his will. Mrs. Bethune sought out other angels. She rode a bicycle up to the secluded front door of Ivory Soap's James Gamble, talked him into helping out the school...
...blowsy grey trousers. As usual, he did not smile, ignored his opponents, spoke only to his plump, wealthy Argentine wife who followed him around as his official marker. He commanded the largest gallery, and treated the crowd to a three-under-par 70. Then he was whisked back to swank Rosack's Marine Hotel for a massage...
Paris, traditionally the place where the talented young wild men go, is actually an old man's paradise. Last week art lovers crowded the swank Galerie Charpentier in Faubourg Saint-Honore, to see 100 topflight examples of the contemporary "Paris School." Of the 52 painters in the show, about a dozen were dead. The average age of the living...