Word: swank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bought everything. With money jingling in their pockets, they swarmed up to the counters; they said wrap it up before they asked the price. In Cleveland, employes of Lincoln Electric Co. got bonuses averaging $3,000. In Beverly Hills, an uppity dowager surveyed the crowd in Saks's swank shop, asked: "Who are all these people?" Cracked the salesgirl: "They're cash customers...
...Yale law enrollment is off from 375 to 105; its swank Gothic law dormitories have largely been taken over by Yale undergraduates...
...developed a team that will take its place with consistently powerful squads that are turned out year after year on the banks of the Hudson. Every fall Marchand builds a dangerous outfit out of a few stars and this year the standouts are goalie Bob Crain, center half Larry Swank, and wing Bob Mathe...
Since then the Negroes had got along excellently with the villagers, with British troops near them, with hard-working Land Army girls. They had worked hard and well. Off duty, they had the freedom of the town. Said Private Richard Sessions, onetime locker boy for a swank Minnesota club, in University English: "I rather thought the English people would be a bit prejudiced toward members of my race, but it's not true at all. They've been extremely nice...
...ailing Blues Singer Ida Cox at Barney Josephson's downtown Café Society, a Manhattan Mecca for jazz connoisseurs. Result: Hazel Scott has been entertaining Café Society audiences ever since. Two years ago Showman Josephson opened a Cafe Society Uptown to house her art with greater swank, now finds it packed nightly with Scott fans: socialites, Broadway sophisticates, savants-about-town. Celebrities regard her with reverence, movie stars ask her for autographs. When Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkeley (They Were Expendable) came to New York, he picked out Hazel Scott on the welcoming platform, greeted her with...