Word: swank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noontime last week General Eisenhower inspected huge, noisy "Willow Run." the mass-production officers' mess in London's swank Grosvenor House. Refusing a table in the alcove reserved for rank, General "Ike" joined a line of junior officers at the cafeteria. In due course he collected pork, potatoes, spinach and salad...
Carl Brisson was last week fast becoming known as the "matrons' Sinatra." An elegant, dimpled, Danish grandfather, who admits to 46, he was packing ladies of ripe years into Manhattan's swank Versailles nightclub. Carl Brisson has a strictly personal, purple-tinted baritone, and for the use of it he was taking down some $2,000 a week. His was a curious, belated success story...
Next day, in a hurriedly called press luncheon in Harlem's swank Hotel Theresa, she told newsmen: "I was frightened when I first heard I was chosen to run-for about 15 minutes. But I'm not frightened any more." Her soft-spoken husband, Dr. F. Douglas Speaks, proudly served drinks from a side table. Said Mrs. Speaks: "You have to work with people to put any program over. I do not believe that there is too much that a Negro Congressman can do alone in Washington." Her platform, however, includes a proposal to revise the 14th Amendment...
...Funkhouser even before Leon Henderson started swinging at independent oilmen in a radio series 'sponsored by Funkhouser's rubber company. Hallanan denounces Funkhouser as a moneybagged interloper trying to buy office, and a party turncoat whose two previous small-time political offices (one as town supervisor of swank, suburban Harrison, N.Y.) were won as a Democrat. R.J., who says he has voted Republican since 1924, explains his registration as a Democrat in 1936 as a regrettable error by one of his employees, who registered...
...Although swank establishments like Manhattan's Stork Club were self-consciously unaffected, the real or fancied complaints of what the month-old tax was doing to the nation's cabarets last week swelled louder than a chorus of hot brasses. The American Guild of Variety Artists estimated that jobless entertainers would soon number 15,000. No one expected Washington to lose much sleep over this; the War Manpower Commission has been trying for months to force such nonessential workers into war plants...