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...Hotchkiss & Co., French manufacturers of swank motor cars and machine-guns, last week announced a 60-franc dividend on its common stock...
...Bull was the first paper to call Germans "Huns." He gave David Lloyd George his two campaign slogans "HANG THE KAISER!" and "MAKE THE HUN PAY!" No paper was more obliging with atrocity stories; none, when the War was over, quicker to fatten on anti-U. S. prejudice. MORE SWANK FROM THE YANKS was one of his favorite headlines. He was passionately addicted to just one brand of champagne, Pommery Nature, 1906, and bought up almost the entire vintage. Before each of his roaring speeches, for which he was paid enormous fees, Horatio Bottomley would gulp half a bottle...
...willing to go along with Mayor Kelly. He is a fighter. He didn't tremble when he was talking to us as some of the so-called bigwigs did." Next day Leader Fewkes and his committee were to have had lunch with the "bigwigs" at the swank Union League Club. But they changed their minds and let the bankers (including Messrs. Dawes & Traylor) cool their soup for 20 minutes before announcing that they did not wish to appear under obligation to the bankers...
Referring to your issue of April 3, p. 18, in your article regarding the visit of Japan's Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, you described him as being "whisked from the waterfront to the echoing calm of Fifth Avenue's swank (but bankrupt) Hotel Pierre...
Outside the world is swaying in a light and airy rhythm. The swank blues and mousey grays of Central Square hoyer by; gay bucks and their plebeian maids are on the shabby avenue, tempting one to stray abroad. The Vagabond, pigeon-breasted from long days at his books, expands his lungs, and plunges into the indescribale subway entrance. There, his stick and gloves, his shining topper, are the center of a half-awed admiration. He enters the car like a fairy prince swirling away in his coach; even the guards bow and scrape like tousled sycophants...