Word: swank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Condè Nast met Patcèvitch, appropriately, at a swank Manhattan party. Young Patcèvitch, with his lean, cultured face and Vogueish good manners, was on his rapid way up in a Wall Street brokerage house. He had been in the U.S. only since 1923. Son of a White Russian civil governor, he was educated at the Imperial Naval Academy, served as liaison officer between the Russians and British on the Eastern Front. During the Russian Revolution he went to work for the Near East Relief in Persia and Turkey. There he met Americans who gave him valuable...
Describing a "pep talk" given by MacLeish to OWI field officers at Washington's swank Carlton Hotel, O'Donnell printed in full the $6-a-plate menu, smacked his lips over "a bar with Martini, Manhattan and Daiquiri cocktails, plus scotch highballs for a starter, a dry white wine with the fish, a sturdy burgundy with the meat and all topped off with coffee and liqueurs, cigars and cigarets." Afterwards a "visiting fireman of war information" remarked: "And now I'm supposed to go back home and tell them we all must sacrifice and reduce our standard...
...film, S. P. Eagle had no business. He had nothing more than the bare idea for the picture. And he was close to starving. The apocryphal story has it that Mr. Eagle thereupon invited Hollywood's most expensive authors to dinner at Dave Chasen's swank restaurant, ordered the best that Mr. Chasen had, disclosed his idea, picked the writers clean of theirs, and then walked out, leaving the check...
...Manhattan, after a getaway from France with the help of Hollywood friends, cheerful Duchamp was comfortably installed in Patroness Peggy Guggenheim's swank apartment. Generalized he: "The artists of Paris are flourishing." He particularized...
Gerd von Rundstedt got his first military training in swank cadet schools, where stiff-backed officers and crop-headed noncoms broke young men and rebuilt them to the Army pattern. He was a captain and company commander when World War I began, went to the front with a crack infantry regiment. He distinguished himself. With his background and training he could not have done anything else. But he also showed a fine soldier's brain, and when the war ended he was chief of staff of an army corps, a higher leap than any other German general now fighting...