Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daily with gangster gunfire. No such ignoramus is Emile E. C. Mathis, French motor car tycoon who has visited the U. S. many times. Last week he and handsome Mme Mathis were in the U. S. again. One evening in Manhattan they made a gay night of it at swank restaurants and night clubs, winding up with scrambled eggs & coffee at famed Reuben's ("That's All") all-night restaurant on 58th Street, hard by the Plaza Hotel where they were staying...
Rosemary Hall in swank Greenwich, Conn, is a collection of Gothic-Roman- esque-Italianate buildings which are predominantly pink stucco chiefly because pink is a favorite color of Rosemary's breezy, strong-minded old Headmistress Caroline Ruutz-Rees (pronounced R'Treece). The "Boarders" and the "Day Boarders" wear wool or tweed uniforms in winter and gingham ones in spring tailored to Headmistress Ruutz-Rees's exact specifications. All regard her with a loyalty that makes Rosemary Hall notable among girls' schools not so much for its fashionableness and its stiff scholastic standards as for the fact...
...then by observing the movement of tiny shadows produced by the accident of the meat on the flesh of the woman I love while the sun was setting, I was finally able to attain images sufficiently lucid and appetizing for exhibition in New York." He was taken up by swank New York socialites and in his honor was held a fancy dress ball that is still the talk of the West Fifties. Mme Dali wore a dress of transparent red paper and a headdress made of boiled lobsters and a doll's head. Artist Dali wore a glass case...
...younger brothers except in their early real-estate days. The only member of a family of five children who ever married, he continued in real estate until 1925, when he retired. The two spinster Van Sweringen sisters, who live together in the house their brothers originally built in their swank Shaker Heights development, were taken care of in "O. P.'s" will...
...each department of the store is featured the outstanding and best known lines in the clothing and haberdashery field. Included in this line are Fashion Park Clothes, Florsheim Shoes, Lee Hats, Swank Jewelry, Monito and Imported Hosiery, Alpacuna O'Coats, Jayson Shirts, Magregor Sportswear, Mark Cross Gloves, Taylor Shoes, Pioneer Suspenders, Belts and Garters, BVD Underwear, Bass Shoes and Ski Boots...