Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to London's Sunday Express, swank couturiers who cater to the best-dressing Duchess of Kent promptly made plans to open branches in Australia. Bustling George Garcia, the Australian Chairman of Aspro Ltd. which sells Europeans half a billion headache tablets yearly, crowed: "I am elated. Australia has always been keen on the Royal Family. We want a governor general from outside the Dominion who can make unprejudiced decisions. The Duchess will appeal to Australians because she is beautiful and chic and a mother...
What It Is. Biggest worry of the Progressives is that their program is spreading too fast, too thinly. For genuine Progressive Education is still available only to pupils in expensive private schools or the public schools of swank suburbs. Most bandwagon-jumping schools have swallowed chunks of Progressive methods, little Progressive philosophy. One of the reasons: No two people agree on what Progressive Education...
...view of that, the most interesting statement of last week in Pennsylvania was one issued in Pittsburgh by a sharp-faced, dark-skinned personage who occupies a mansion hard by the swank Oakmont Country Club and is known throughout the Negro world as: 1) publisher of the weekly Pittsburgh Courier (circulation: 145,000), 2) national chairman of the Negro division of the Democratic Party for the election of 1932, 3) former occupant of one of the highest Federal offices ever held by a Negro (Special Assistant to the U. S. Attorney General, 1933-35). His name: Robert Lee Vann...
...families, has an average complement of stores, saloons, movie houses. Old York Road has some tumble-down clapboard houses, but Ellerslie Avenue's brick rows are more typical. The section chosen for the experiment comprises about 1,600 homes in 50 blocks, is bounded on one side by swank Guilford, on the other by Baltimore's Municipal Stadium. In cooperation with the Baltimore Housing Authority, HOLC will make a survey to find out "what is necessary to fortify and secure residential values . . . and provide a pattern which can be applied to communities throughout the country." Cost...
Hoarse-voiced King Zog of Albania five months ago requested a swank Paris jeweler to send him some $600,000 worth of precious gems on approval so he could select a few stones for his Queen-to-be, impoverished, half-American, 22-year-old Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary. Albania's fierce, feuding tribesmen were not surprised. Wily Zog, a onetime clan chieftain of fine old farming ancestry, has always done his business on the approval basis. He shopped for a bride in the same way. At least one European lady of title, suitable and willing to become...