Word: swank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Germany. The Nazis were sore about comments made by wry Elmer Davis in Manhattan as follow-up to a CBS radio interview in Berlin with Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse week before. Said Commentator Davis of Author Wodehouse, released from an internment camp and put at Berlin's swank Hotel Adlon so he could broadcast for the Nazis...
...Nazis seemed last week to be planning an extraordinary new radio coup. Fortnight ago they released tall, bald, bespectacled Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse from an internment camp at Tost, ensconced him at Government expense in a suite in Berlin's swank Hotel Adlon, gave him permission to come and go as he pleased within the confines of the Reich. During his captivity, 59-year-old Author Wodehouse, who was captured when he tarried too late at a cocktail party at his villa in Le Touquet in May 1940, was rated a model prisoner. But on a quid...
Young Segura may be no Perry, Craw ford or Von Cramm, but he is the most fascinating foreigner to invade U.S. tennis courts since dazzling Henri Cochet. Like Cochet, Segura picked up the game as ball boy: at Ecuador's swank Guayaquil Tennis Club. Small and puny, he found two hands better than one, never gave up his ten-fingered grip...
...members of this Foreign Legion, students got only $50 monthly, lived together fraternity-house style to save money, occasionally frolicked in Vanderlip's swank swimming pool (see cut). When training ended, some stayed in the City Bank's foreign division in Manhattan, most went to overseas offices...
Last week some Britons found a wry symbolism in the fact that Labor Minister Bevin had taken to lunching among the well-heeled Conservatives at the swank Carlton Grill. Said the acute New Statesman & Nation...