Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clarence Shattuck will be among the chief trustees. As his college grows, Mr. Pepperdine plans to assign it further income from his approximately six-year-old George Pepperdine Foundation, a philanthropic corporation which holds an unspecified amount of securities and California real estate, including Hollywood's swank Ravenswood Apartments where Mae West is a tenant...
Shrewdest of all were the advertising directors of United Kingdom Tobacco Co., makers of "Grey's" cigarets, a somewhat swank but inexpensive brand. In 48 hours London newspapers appeared with quarter and half-page advertisements flaunting largely the company's new slogan: "The Fleet is All Lit Up!" And in small type below the explanation: "They're smoking Grey's cigarets." Abashed Commander Woodrooffe explained: "I was so overcome by the occasion that I burst into tears and found I could say no more." To be sure that announcers would not be overcome with emotion...
...Manhattan, Mary Jane Swank, 18, who performs with her twin sister Jean in a dance team, sued Harry Brown Cook III, 21, for divorce. She complained that since he moved in to live with the Swanks, "on more than one occasion Mr. Cook made a mistake as to the identity of his wife, thereby causing resentment...
...place to worship in between regular services. And San Francisco's most vigorous Congregational church made what Temple's pastor called an offer of "marriage." Temple accepted. Last Sunday for the first time Methodists mingled with Congregationalists in First Church (2,500 seats), downtown near the swank St. Francis Hotel...
...South Chicago Avenue, ten miles from Chicago's swank Loop shopping district, stands a big, three-story brick building that used to be a bag factory. Today it houses a typical supermarket, Depression's great contribution to U. S. retailing. This supermarket, Trading Post, Inc., was founded in 1934 by Roy O. Dawson with the backing of the Bristol brothers, Lee, Henry and William (of Bristol-Myers...