Word: swank
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thus Irun was a blazing pyre when the White forces took it last week and pressed on to seize swank San Sebastian. Their victory was reflected in Madrid by a complete upheaval of the Cabinet. Thus far sympathizers with Madrid had been able to claim that "not a single Socialist or Communist" sat in the Cabinet under President Manuel Azaña. Though the secret was long since out that this Cabinet was powerless, that Madrid was dominated by Red militia and "People's Tribunals'' similar to those which asserted themselves during the French Revolution, the fagade...
...Tennessee Shad, Stover at Yale), has worked for the Republican National Committee (1920), the Democratic National Committee (1928), has ten times won the gentleman farmers' exhibit of fruit, vegetables and flowers at the Stockbridge, Mass. Grange Fair. Last week his first public office sought him. To his swank Stockbridge home trooped several hundred neighbors headed by Harvard Instructor William Ellery Sedgwick, nephew of venerable Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly. Tumbling their words excitedly together, they asked 58-year-old Novelist Johnson to become a candidate for the Democratic Congressional nomination from the First Massachusetts District...
...week the taste of U. S.-born Mrs. Simpson and the talent of U. S.-born Lady Mendl scored heavily again when His Majesty, just before leaving on vacation, commissioned Elsie de Wolfe Inc. to sweep stuffy Victorianism and plush out of stately Buckingham Palace, redecorate its interior in swank Modern Style...
...flirtation of Der Führer and Il Duce, symbolized last month by the Pact of Berchtesgaden (TIME, July 20), was adorned last week by Adolf Hitler with a thumping reward to its negotiator, Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen. Although this swank, sly predecessor of Hitler as Chancellor remains in charge of the German diplomatic mission in Vienna, which retains the status of legation, von Papen personally is raised to "Ambassador Extraordinary on Special Mission." With Germany taking de facto hold of Danzig (see p. 20) and Italy's conquest fast gaining de facto recognition, the new "Dictators...
Marriage Revealed. Floyd Bostwick Odium, 44, president of Atlas- Corp., divorced last year by President Hortense McQuarrie Odium of Manhattan swank-shop Bonwit Teller; and Jacqueline Cochran, 27, flyer, Los Angeles and Chicago beauty parlor proprietor; in Los Angeles...