Word: swank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shirley Temple, now 17, who has been growing up in public since she was three and a half, passed another milestone-graduation from high school (Los Angeles' swank Westlake School for Girls...
...summer bachelor since his wife and daughter went back to Independence, Harry Truman took two nights off for stag parties. He attended a dinner for his old friend Leslie L. ("Biff") Biffle, secretary of the Senate, and went out to Washington's swank Burning Tree Country Club, where he was initiated as the club's newest member. Over the weekend he cruised down the Potomac...
...Rockefeller Jr., who had admired Fosdick's fight, offered him the pastorate of the Park Avenue Baptist Church. Fosdick accepted- with conditions. The church must: 1) no longer require immersion; 2) grant membership to all Christians, regardless of creed; 3) build a new church in a less swank district; 4) pay the minister no more than $5,000. (Later, when the pressure of church work began to cut down his out side income, his salary was boosted close...
Early last year Louise Peete, now middleaged, full-bosomed, and addicted to strange hats, began keeping house in swank Pacific Palisades for mentally-ailing Arthur C. Logan, and his real-estate-broker wife, Margaret. Tremulously, she confided her past to the Logans. Far from firing her, they took her to their hearts. When she married a 67-year-old bank messenger named Lee Borden Jud son, they insisted that she bring him into the family circle...
...British distiller and amateur horseman, famed for his loud check suits, curly-brimmed hats, perennial mauve carnation boutonnieres (two a day, four on Sundays, 39,000 in 47 years); in his partially blitzed London home. He loudly deplored the modern hatless, sweatered riders seen on Hyde Park's swank Rotten Row bridle path ("Hottentots!"), once launched a short-lived campaign to endow lectures on riding etiquette...