Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maestro Arturo Toscanini snubbed Germany's Bayreuth Festival and decided to conduct in Salzburg instead, Salzburg's annual festival became Europe's biggest single tourist attraction. To it flocked not only music-lovers from all the world, but a great horde of gawping sightseers, visiting royalty, swank socialites...
...more plausible more understandable, than those of the established churches. A cult which has done well on this broad basis is one known simply as Unity. One of its high priestesses, a well-dressed, pleasant-faced woman named Mrs. Georgiana Tree West announced last week in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel that she had incorporated a new Unity Center in that city, was hunting a permanent location for it. Said Mrs. West: "There is a new religious era, and it is being led by women. Women have the new vision of the new interpretations of the teachings...
...swank Georgia Hotel 500 men made themselves at home on the hotel lobby's soft, upholstered furniture. They left there after one night when a $500 bribe was raised by the city. Another 500 occupied the general post office, 200 moved into the Civic Art Gallery and there they stayed one month. Organized in orderly "military" squads, the men interfered as little as possible with business routine, were careful to clean up every morning, took exercise by marching in relays on the streets...
...tied up in a $1,200 savings account his great-uncle had started in 1899. One day Elisha's wife begged her father-in-law for this puny sum. Legend has it that when he refused, she produced a horsewhip, thrashed him soundly in the lobby of his swank Manhattan office building. In 1928 she died, and Elisha sent his daughter, Audrey Bridget, to live with his parents while he gradually began to succeed as a detective story writer for pulp magazines and newspaper columnist under a pen name...
Operetta is no longer what it used to be. But last month Los Angeles launched a swank season of operetta revivals, and similar festivals have been scheduled for this summer in Louisville, Cleveland, St. Louis, as well as in Manhattan's Randall's Island and Long Island's Jones Beach. Most important of these festivals, that of the 20-year-old St. Louis Municipal Theater Association, opened last week with a repertory that included such old-timers as Chimes of Normandy, Rosalie, Show Bout, and Roberta, such latter-day specimens as White Horse Inn. Opener...