Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University of Wisconsin as an institution has a long-standing liberal tradition. But not all Badgers are liberals. Month ago the conservatives on Madison's Langdon St. (Wisconsin's swank fraternity row) routed the liberals, elected their ticket* to the board of control of the undergraduate Daily Cardinal. Next day the new board ousted curly-haired Richard J. Davis, a New Yorker and no fraternity man, who had been elected executive editor by the retiring board to succeed New Yorker Morton Newman. The new board complained of Editor Davis' Leftist leanings, said he could not work...
...Angeles' swank Ambassador Hotel pool, Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, Diver Marjorie Gestring, other aquatic stars put on an exhibition to raise money for blonde, beauteous Georgia Coleman, onetime (1929-31) U. S. women's diving champion, who for the last six months has been in a Los Angeles hospital ill with paralysis. Two of Miss Coleman 's bathing suits were auctioned off, one to Swimmer Weissmuller for $20. Total amount raised: "more than...
...famous syncopator's story, written with literary assistance, is autobiographical in form, although all characters are fictitious. The first chapter opens at a "Swank Harvard affair" when an undergraduate approaches Mr. Dorsey and asks to be allowed to play a number...
...Sealyham. Last November the Museum of Modern Art held an exhibition called "Paintings for Paris." The eminent artists invited had been allowed to send their own choices. The show as a whole was a dud, unrepresentative, swank and dull. Nothing better indicates the quality of the Paris exhibition than the fact that of 46 paintings shown last autumn only five are among the 120 contemporary pictures now in Paris. And nothing shows better the character of the man chiefly responsible for the exhibition...
...played a program ranging from Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue to Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen. Said Critic Henry Pleasants: "Here was a brilliance in scale and arpeggio passages that many a violinist or pianist could envy." Virtuoso Arcari, who makes most of his living teaching and playing for swank parties in Philadelphia, has often been heard at the White House in Washington...