Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany is now the spearhead of anti-Socialist forces. However, likeable Benno served most of his apprenticeship to the German Dye Trust in its Paris office, speaks French even better than he speaks Dutch, and would be able from experience to show buxom Juliana a good time in Paris swank spots...
Just as he lands his job on a big-time program, Kit's family sees through his insults, she through his songs. Unhappily obstinate, she heads for Arizona and marriage to the bounder. How Pete, in the middle of his first broadcast before a swank crowd, succeeds in stopping her is too ridiculous to be funny: While his partner holds the radio station at bay by pretending to have a gun, Crooner Pete breaks off singing, babbles impassioned pleas to Kit over...
Soprano Mary Lewis sang The Star Spangled Banner. Postmaster General James A. Farley presented the Robert L. Hague trophy. Recipient was the crew of the swank Italian liner Conte di Savoia who, winning for the second time in three years, outdistanced last year's winner, a lifeboat crew from the oil-tanker W. C. Teagle, by nine seconds. In last place, far behind the representatives of a United Fruit steamer, a Norwegian-America liner and the Furness Bermuda Line's Queen of Bermuda, was the unfortunate lifeboat crew of the Normandie...
Thus Irun was a blazing pyre when the White forces took it last week and pressed on to seize swank San Sebastian. Their victory was reflected in Madrid by a complete upheaval of the Cabinet. Thus far sympathizers with Madrid had been able to claim that "not a single Socialist or Communist" sat in the Cabinet under President Manuel Azaña. Though the secret was long since out that this Cabinet was powerless, that Madrid was dominated by Red militia and "People's Tribunals'' similar to those which asserted themselves during the French Revolution, the fagade...
...afternoon last week in the swank offices of Attorneys Pritzker & Pritzker, on the 22nd floor of Chicago's Metropolitan Building, a happy scene took place. Four very stylishly dressed little men beamed and pumped the hands of newshawks, eagerly posed this way and that way for photographers, put their arms around the shoulders of friends, rubbed their palms with satisfaction. A chance observer might have mistaken them for a team of tumblers jumping about in jubilation at having signed a contract to appear in the floor show of the Edgewater Beach Hotel. But their destination was not the Lake...