Word: swank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night, week in, week out. For U. S. audiences, the commentator was big, beefy Quentin Reynolds, war correspondent for Collier's weekly, whose favorite vantage point for watching air raids was the unsheltered roof of his apartment building (Lansdowne House, renamed "Arson House") in London's swank Berkeley Square. Of all the tough U. S. writers covering the Battle of Britain, "Quent" Reynolds was close to the toughest, yet in a letter printed in Variety last week he said: ". . . You can only make all this London business exciting if you haven't been here...
...they formed the largest selling syndicate in Wall Street history: 142 underwriters (who put up the money), 506 dealers (who took the bonds in lots as small as one each). Last week, after spending two days in Manhattan's swank Plaza hotel oiling and firing the starting gun, Utilityman Bauer was on the way back to his unpretentious home in Pasadena (via New Orleans because over-mountain trips sicken his wife). He was happy. Well over 90% of his bonds are sold; underwriters expect to have empty shelves by week's end. Better still, he had once more...
Last week Barney Josephson opened an uptown branch of Café Society, smack in the heart of the swank East Side, next door to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. On the nightclub's two-story-high walls. Artist Anton Refregier painted soft-toned satirical murals...
...Munitions and Supply under quiet, hard-working Minister Clarence D. Howe. Mr. Howe has spent much time in Washington, has much respect for the U. S. commissioners and what they have managed to do up to now. But Canada's dollar-a-year-men (Ottawa's swank Chateau Laurier swarms with them) unanimously declare that the U. S. is bound to have many a headache, many a defense delay unless a board or a supply department with real powers and a single head is substituted for the present Washington setup...
...this trend. Only tangible growth in city vacancies (hence lower rents) was in the upper brackets-houses and apartments renting for $45 or $50 a month and more. In much-moving Manhattan, renters in that bracket found reductions averaging 2½ to 5%. Biggest rap was taken by swank East Side apartments (seven rooms or over), where realtors found tenants beginning to economize by taking smaller units. Landlords, leery of giving tenants any weapon which might be used to beat down rents, did not talk, but last week the U. S. Census Bureau put New York City vacancies...