Word: swank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adjoining cage M'Toto manages to look a lot like him and still be labeled "cute." Last week M'Toto's former owner, swank, socialite Mrs. E. Kenneth Hoyt, traveled from her Havana estate to see M'Toto and supervise a light lunch of eggs, salad, cup custard and a pound of filet mignon. Backing out of M'Toto's presence, Mrs. Hoyt brushed against the one side of Gargantua's cage that is not glass-enclosed. Gargantua thrust a huge hand between the bars and, with a single twitch of a clawed...
Bonwit Teller's ace, Costa Rica-born designer Tom Lee, most respected of all Fifth Avenue window-display men, inspired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's forthcoming China Trade show, filled his windows with elegant Chinoi-series, including two life-size rag-doll horses. Swank Jeweler Marcus' veteran designer, W. B. Okie Jr., surrounded a terra cotta madonna with Easter lilies and pearls. Macy's Irving Eldredge, who has 41 windows to fill, paraded his dummies before backdrops of Manhattan landmarks and the Central Park Zoo. Designer Walter Smith, who works for both I. Miller...
Operating now on both edges of the continent, blue-eyed, greying Jimmy Wa ters commutes back & forth by airplane two or three times a month, has apart ments on Manhattan's swank Park Avenue and San Francisco's swank Nob Hill as well as an estate at Woodside, Calif. He eggs his salesmen on with contests in which they win chances on a punchboard (two for selling a De Soto, one for a Plymouth) containing $35,000 in prizes...
...glossy coat and a little sporting blood." No one knows exactly why he went to South America. Some thought he might have been on an unofficial mission to Chile, sent by his good friend Henry Wallace, of whom Anderson wrote a strange, ambiguous sketch in No Swank. More probably, like many another American, he had just gone wandering about, looking for other people to talk to, another place to be alone...
...lived in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria. A small, dark, dapper man, with horn-rimmed glasses and big beak nose anchored by a full mustache, he might have passed as a Hollywood executive, a clothing manufacturer or a prosperous refugee. Few would have spotted him for what he really...