Word: swank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swank Cotton Bay Club on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas is a world-famed playground for fun-loving celebrities and tired millionaires. In recent years, it has become the favorite retreat of top-ranking military men, too-so much so that at times the Cotton Bay Club has looked more like a tropical officers' club than the gilt-edged resort it is. Last week the House Armed Services Committee revealed that a lot of the high brass have been relaxing on the Cotton Bay Club's palm-fringed golf course as freeloading guests of Baltimore's Martin...
Like the Western. TV's Private Eye certainly cannot lay claim to realism, either. His real-life counterparts work out of the country's 5,000 agencies (and earn a collective income of about $250 million a year), not out of swank bars and seedy clip joints. They spend more time at plant protection or gathering over-the-transom divorce evidence than avenging mink-clad corpses. TV Eyes, says San Francisco's crew-cut professional Eye, Hal Lipsett, are altogether too tough. They ignore the real Eye's tricky devices and subtle techniques-the telephone...
...comedy went on, in Pennsylvania's swank-rustic Bucks County Playhouse last week, "T. C." handled hip and handbag so well that the audience rapidly forgot his real sex. "Jones is so good that we completely forgot he was a man," said one actor after the show. "When he leaned over after one rehearsal and kissed his wife, we were all shocked." Mrs. Connie Dickson Jones herself is long past such shock. Onetime actress (she once toured the South in a tent show of Ten Nights in a Barroom) and athlete (she was once women's fencing champion...
...that basis, Bonnier's choice for editor was obvious. Well-born Carl-Adam Nycop, now 49, had been headed for a stuffy life of upper-class responsibility when his fellow junior aristocrats at Sweden's swank Lundsberg boarding school began to mock him as a runt (he is now 5 ft. 7 in.). Nycop was so embittered by the attacks that he rebelled against his convention-bound background, to become a news-and-be-damned reporter. In 1938 he was tapped by Bonnier to start the LiFE-like picture weekly Ssee, soon showed an executive's firm...
...center of political activity in Havana today is the head-quarters of Fidel Castro on the 23rd floor of the luxurious Havana Hilton. The spacious, plushly-furnished lobby of the swank hotel presents the observer with a curious and incongruous sight. It seems strange to see the bearded rebel soldiers, armed to the teeth, rubbing shoulders and sometimes tolerantly conversing with the Hilton's exclusive clientele, who come from all over the world. But after a while no one seems out-of-place in the crowd; not even the pretty young Cuban bobby-soxers who come with their cameras...