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Disgusted with London, even amid its present brilliant boom, were two U. S. showgirls who returned from swank Dorchester House last week on the French liner Lafayette. "You fall over dukes and princes at Dorchester House," admitted Blonde Bonnie Clare. "The real trouble is," explained Brunette Delia Carroll, "that the ones who are in earnest have no money at all and the rich ones are triflers. A really fine man asked me to wait while he went out to India for three years...
...lobby. If the Legislature is in session rooms there will be at a premium. The capital may have a newer and swankier hotel, built between 1924 and 1929, but the farmers, the smalltown lawyers, the minor merchants who compose the bulk of State legislatures are not interested in swank. All they want for their short, frequent sessions is a cheap (about $1.50), convenient bed in a place where they can circulate from room to room swapping stories, dickering deals, playing poker...
With a month of private life left him before he becomes Pennsylvania's first Democratic Governor in 40 years, rich, socialite George Howard Earle of Philadelphia's swank "Main Line" last week...
...Manhattan's swank Park Lane Hotel one noon last week rolled a truck bearing two pure-bred Holstein-Friesian cows named Nysia Maggie Titanic de Kol and Nysia Maid Gertrude. Two white-robed attendants tethered them in fresh hay in the hotel's garden, then painstakingly inspected their gleaming hides & hoofs for specks of dirt. To make news for a charity benefit the two Nysias were that night to be milked by Manhattan's lushest debutantes. First prize: silver cigaret & vanity case. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the more serious girls arrived to inspect...
...swank clientèle moved slowly up the Island of Manhattan, Lord & Taylor's followed. In the 1850's the store was on Grand Street, where the "carriage trade" rolled smartly up to its doors. When the President-elect visited the city in 1861, the World reported: "A large bow window at Lord & Taylor's well-known establishment was entirely filled with ladies. ... As Mr. Lincoln was passing they rose en masse, waved their cambric welcome and gave utterance to as hearty cheers as are often heard from a broader-chested and stronger-lunged people...