Word: swank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four years ago Manhattan's swank Saks Fifth Avenue department store decided to make the minor art of window dressing more arty. Taking a cue from the Museum of Modern Art's highly successful Van Gogh exhibition, Saks hung its windows with splashy Van Gogh reproductions, surrounded them with splashy garments. The idea spread until Fifth Avenue began to look like a huge, outdoor art museum...
...playground superintendents the Windsors are well experienced, will find the routine of Nassau reassuringly similar to that of the Riviera. To the swank Jungle Club go top-flight visiting Nassau socialites to dine, to the equally swank Bahamian Club for dancing or gambling. On nearby Hog Island are the tennis courts and swimming pools of the exclusive Porcupine Club. Below green-shuttered Government House are the warm waters of Nassau harbor, crowded with sleek yachts and fishing launches. Two hours flight away is the Florida coast and its U.S. winter resorts. The cartoonists of the U. S. press were quick...
Born. To Janet Gaynor, pert, auburn-haired cinemactress, and Gilbert Adrian, swank fashion designer: their first child, a son. Weight: 7 Ib. 4 oz. Name: Robbin Gaynor...
...Madrid, whither they had fled from France (TIME, July 1), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor dined with Miguel Primo de Rivera, provincial chief of the Falangist (Fascist) organization, at the swank Palace Hotel; revealed that on their journey from their Cap d'Antibes villa they had been reduced to eating canned sardines. Confided the Duchess: "They were most delicious...
...lawyer) Westrick arrived in the U. S. through the back door from Japan. He brought with him his dark, beautiful wife, and his two boys, Klaus, 9, and Peter, 6. They put up at Manhattan's swank Plaza Hotel. For several weeks, short, stocky, snow-haired, direct-speaking, wound-limping Dr. Westrick did his business from there...