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Last week he left Washington with his wife and son Ralph, who were going to London with him. Arriving in New York, they checked in at the swank St. Regis Hotel, where they had reserved a suite on the eighth floor. Next day, he went to a luncheon given for him by his old friend Eric Johnston at the Waldorf-Astoria...
...considerable fraction of the population rose from warm beds and sat shivering beside wirelesses to hear the 7 a.m. news report of the Battle of Adelaide. A blue-faced cabby with frosted eyebrows said to a chum: "We didn't ought to have sent them." In a swank Pall Mall club, an elderly gentle man turned from the ticker mumbling: "Damn bad luck." All England knew and feared the name of Australia's great batsman, a wiry stockbroker, Don Bradman. With his help, last week, the Australian eleven held the British to a draw. The Australians had already...
...Panama, there were low mutterings of "Qué horror!" (Outrageous!). From Havana, Trygve Lie cabled apologies. On his whirl through the Antilles and Central America, he had missed a banquet tossed for him by the Lions Club in Panama City's swank Union Club. Some 133 guests, including the entire diplomatic corps, the entire Panamanian Cabinet, the presidents of the National Assembly and Supreme Court, waited more than an hour before deciding that the U.N. Secretary-General had stood them up. Lie, reportedly annoyed when his official chauffeur got lost or mislaid, proceeded to Cuba. Panamanians were most piqued...
...Manhattan's swank Park Avenue Racquet & Tennis Club, the British racquets team met the U.S. in the first international racquets team match since 1930. The British relied on control, while the Americans concentrated on slugging the ball. Britain's doubles team of Cosmo Crawley and Jack Paule, never beaten, kept their record intact. Final score: Britain...
They had surrendered not only rank, but swank. Like all West Point fourth-classmen, they answered to titles like "Mister Dumbjohn" and endured upper-classmen's humor. But as soldiers, most wore their ribbons. They were the gaudiest plebes in the Academy's history. On his grey dress coat, Cadet Clark sported pilot's wings, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 13 clusters, and an ETO ribbon with six stars...