Word: swankau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this request even the most friendly could not respond, for while the letter was on its way, the choleric, anti-U.S. weekly Britannia (TIME, Nov. 5) had failed under the extravagant editorship of Novelist Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau and was about to lose its identity in a merger with England's popular Eve, according to statements issued by wealthy, wiry William Harrison, owner of both publications and some 25 other periodicals...
...tawny glass of Spanish sherry a suave Semite faced London reporters in his flat last week. They knew that he had just made a bust of the largest British magazine enterprise of recent years, was regarded by some as a not inconsiderable ass. Twirling his glass of sherry, Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau alibied...
...come within the extreme Fascist fringe of the little Semite's whims. He was "agin" the Government of Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, "agin" the David Lloyd George Liberals, "agin" the Ramsay MacDonald Laborites, but chiefly "agin" everything remotely hailing from the U. S.-where Novelist Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau reaped thousands of dollars from book sales and lectures about himself to U. S. women's clubs...
...matter of fact Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau edited Britannia with the assistance of Mr. Price; but apparently his swanky little soul rejoiced in the title of GOVERNING DIRECTOR...
Provoked, Editor Garvin alsc alluded savagely to the fact that smart Britons often refer to Britannia's editor as that bounder "Filbert Swankau...