Word: swank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ecdysiast Gypsy Rose Lee, exposing her social consciousness, went to make a speech, but got lost on Long Island. Outside the swank Rubinstein store in Manhattan, picketers marched, chanting...
...Brussels Ambassador Kurusu was suspected of being as anti-Axis as his American wife, who was Alice Little of Chicago. He was a member of the swank Circle Gaulois, to which no German belongs. In Berlin it was Ambassador Kurusu's duty to sign Japan's Axis Pact...
Last year theaters closed at seven, so that bomb-wary patrons might hurry to inadequate shelters. Taxi drivers received half-crown tips for venturing out in the blitz. Patrons in bathrobes slumped about the lounges of swank hotels. Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast. The Zoo's lone emu shuddered when the ack-acks whammed...
...Boston Distribution Conference last week (see p. 86), the most laughs were provided by young Edward S. Marcus, Secretary-Treasurer of Dallas' swank specialty shop, Neiman-Marcus. Mr. Marcus, in pursuit of new fashion ideas, took a three months' trip to South America. He came back well sold on the future of hemisphere trade, but with a new understanding of what it takes to do business with Latin America. Some items...
...simply evah so swank," gushed Gurdon Wattles, more seigne than ever in a six-button flowered damask coat with kerchief to match, at a pre-Sheridan punch yesterday in honor of the cast of "Arsenic and Old Lace...