Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that shoots north along the sandy shore past the 1933 Fairsite, Soldier Field, Field Museum and Grant Park, juts first right then left and north again to cross the Chicago River and the Ogden Slip with the Tribune Tower looming high on the left,* keeps on to wind around swank Gold Coast's apartments and the Drake Hotel, then north once more on the express highway of Lake Shore Drive. It was at the Chicago River that President Roosevelt paused to make his speech and it was there that the last important link was last week completed...
...teach people to live in a space 7 ft. by 7 ft. the only U. S. licensed School of Trailer Economics accompanies the show. From a swank chocolate-colored trailer Captain Jose L. Misfud lectured to trailees on trailer commissary and linen, clothing and bedspread supply, oil and gasoline oven operation, trailer heating and sanitation...
...sits in a row of old brownstone apartments, like a blue-eyed blonde on a bench with pickaninnies. Inside is a big desk which no one, however pompous, may pass without presenting an invitation (issued this week only to socialites and nouveaux riches)-a barrier raised partly for swank, partly to keep out style pirates of whom couturiers have a healthy fear, in spite of the fact that to make cheaply a good copy of either the drapery or workmanship of a fine dress is often virtually impossible...
...Snatch" last week was sitting up in bed at Shanghai, surrounded by flowers, cablegrams and congratulatory letters. His doctors permitted him to walk about his room and receive visitors. A warship waited to take Sir Hughe to a swank resort in The Netherlands East Indies for final convalescence-and still the Japanese Government, far from having made the "fullest redress" demanded by the British Government, had not yet officially replied to London's charge that it was a Japanese war plane which suddenly swooped down on the Ambassador's car and shot "Snatch...
...Manhattan art critics were surprised twice in quick succession last week: 1 ) when the swank Knoedler Galleries opened their season with an exhibition of 21 flower paintings by the wife of a Hollywood producer. and 2) when the paintings turned out to be not so bad. Mrs. Bessie Lasky is the wife of Mr. Jesse Lasky. Slender, pale, serene, with curly Titian hair and a love of Chinese pajamas, she has been painting ever since the Laskys became prosperous about 15 years ago. Of her subjects she says: "I understand flowers better than anything else. To me they are human...