Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also that of an unknown female, similarly butchered, was found at the same spot. The other six-five males, one female-all dismembered, only two of them identified -were found in the desolate Kingsbury Run section, through which Cleveland's rapid transit line speeds prosperous Clevelanders to swank Shaker Heights. At last week's end, Cleveland police admitted they were as hopelessly without clues to Cleveland's butcher as they were three years...
...that the settlement of the World War is now final insofar as any German claims are concerned?" Flushing darkly, von Ribbentrop finished his tea at a gulp, stalked off to Das Büro Ribbentrop. His 15-year-old son, he presently announced, would go in England to swank Westminster School, although there is in London a special 100% Nazi school to which local Germans are urged by strongest Nazi pressure to send their sons. In late October, Ambassador von Ribbentrop, who nearly always travels by air, finally set out by train for London, arrived at Victoria Station wearing...
...will hang George Sloan to a sour apple tree." An apostle of NRA cooperation, he predicted "inflation, chaos" on its demise. Since his resignation from the Institute in 1935, he has made money as a selling agent for textile manufacturers, has spent more time at his summer place in swank Greenwich, Conn. Now 43, tall, dapper, greying, he is correctly affable and forceful, smart as a whip. In an editorial entitled "Big Business Looks Ahead," the Wall Street Journal sermonized on his election to Steel's board as "an example of the increasing consciousness on the part of business...
...lifted aside by courteous Bobbies. Partly because the Protestant bride has not yet become Catholic (as both families expect she will) and partly because nothing could add lustre to a wedding so entirely aristocratic, the candles were unlighted, the Oratory was undecked and two of the six page boys, swank moppets dressed in the racing colors of the duke, behaved as lordly little scamps. One pinched another who started bawling so loudly that he had to be rushed out by an adult. After the benediction, as the Duke & Duchess of Norfolk were returning up the aisle, pew occupants were obliged...
...management were disposed of before the meeting and the plan James Simpson and his engineers had been working on for two years was put to vote, overwhelmingly approved. Involved in the plan besides Commonwealth Edison and Public Service are Western United Gas & Electric Co., serving prosperous but not swank west suburban communities, and Illinois Northern Utilities Co., having customers in most of the territory west to the Mississippi River. All common stock in Western United and Illinois Northern is owned by Commonwealth Edison...