Word: swank
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...summer season was in full, gay swing last week along the smooth, half-moon beach at swank San Sebastian, official summer playground of Spanish officials and Madrid's diplomatic corps. But while some of Fascist Franco's officials relaxed on the white sand, others renewed their vigilance over the nation's morals...
...From the swank Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif, came a new wave of raucous sound effects. It was no sign of new life in Walt's celebrated cartoon creatures. It sounded more like Donald Duck in a tizzy of indecision...
...Baie de Chaleur, touring fishermen could still catch salmon, measured in feet, not inches. At Murray Bay's swank Manoir Richelieu, the service was still superb, and there was more than enough fun to go around...
...swank banquet room of the Hotel Vancouver, 170 new Soviet citizens sat down last week to eat a $2.50 dinner of bouillon, roast chicken, green peas, ice cream and coffee...
Sweet-singing Mary Bethune and her girls entertained at swank Daytona hotels, passing a hat after each performance. One day a sewing-machine tycoon dropped in a $20 bill. He followed it up by visiting Mrs. Bethune's school, and eventually left it $67,000 in his will. Mrs. Bethune sought out other angels. She rode a bicycle up to the secluded front door of Ivory Soap's James Gamble, talked him into helping out the school...