Word: swank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year the revolution in foodstuffs has reached Connecticut. Where the Boston Post Road sweeps up over a hill into Greenwich, tablet foods are clacking out of packaging machines in what was once a huge, swank automobile salesroom. There are vestpocket portions of carrots, cabbage and coffee hardly bigger than a book of matches. There are blocks of onions smaller than a shoebox which will cook up to serve a hundred men. Maker of these tablets, the first commercial producer of dehydrated compressed foods in the U.S., is Auto Ordnance Co., manufacturer as well of the famed Thompson submachine...
...Gremlins (who were harrying railroad operations long before the Wright brothers ever flew) were out in force. They clogged switches with snow, short-circuited signal lights, froze steam connecting lines between cars, iced the rails on steep grades, drank all the coffee in dining cars. Morning after morning the swank Twentieth Century Limited slid into Manhattan two to four hours late. On many another train, four to 13 hours late, passengers stood in vestibules, slept in aisles, heaped baggage and bundles to roof tops...
Manhattan's quietly swank Savoy-Plaza Café Lounge was last week doing the biggest business in its history as a nightspot. Its Mondays had begun to look like Saturdays. No opulent floor show was packing in the customers. The attraction was the face and the shyly sultry singing of a milk-chocolate-colored Brooklyn girl, Lena Horne...
Salvador Dali was last week living in the swank Del Monte Hotel in Del Monte, Calif. He said he had breakfast at 7:30, lunch at 12:45, dinner at 8, played chess with Mrs. Dali after dinner. Most of the time he spent in his hotel room...
...finishing off his eleventh annual engagement at Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria. His latest Hollywood musical, You Were Never Lovelier (starring onetime Cugat Dancer Rita Cansino, now known as Rita Hayworth), had just finished its second hit week on Broadway. The rumba business was booming loudly...