Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Wilson was taking no surreptitious advantage of Mrs. McLaughlin's absence. His unique sign, situated beside the Palmolive Building at swank Delaware Place, had been approved in advance by Chicago's Anti-Cruelty Society. The barkers for Ideal Dog Food were housed in a 26-ft.-wide shed with triangular glass front projecting from the sign's centre. To keep them comfortable there had been installed $6,000 worth of airconditioning. There were also a 30-gal. water tank, blue-lighted kennels, a drinking fountain, awnings, Venetian blinds, sleeping quarters for an attendant in the rear...
...rich patricians, it has lately become popular among cowboys in the Southwest, cinemagnates in California. Once watched by socialites only, New York polo matches in the last few years have drawn crowds as large as baseball games. Determined to make polo in England more profitable, London's swank Hurlingham Club last month made the brave gesture of announcing that it would open its grounds to the public for the Westchester Cup series against the U. S. Before play started, an announcement in the London Times reassured readers who might have thought grey toppers were essential: "Dress: lounge suits." Unfortunately...
...swank crowd in the grandstand had time to give one exclamatory cheer before Pedley, on his way to equaling his own Cup record of nine goals scored in a single game, put through three goals to end the crisis. In the last chukker Balding and Hughes scored for England, but by that time there were only 90 seconds left to play and the Americans saved the game...
...discovered that church founding has its obstacles. First big one was the ample frame of Moderator George Emerson Barnes of the Philadelphia Presbytery. A onetime University of Montana footballer who subscribes to the 1923 Auburn Affirmation which questions such doctrines as the Virgin Birth, Dr. Barnes is pastor of swank Overbrook Presbyterian Church, a Rotarian and Union Leaguer well versed in church law. When Dr. Machen and his followers began handing resignations to their presbyteries last week, Moderator Barnes promptly called a meeting at which he declared that it was impossible for a Presbyterian minister to resign from the Church...
After years of complaints from residents of Mt. Kisco, Katonah and Bedford Hills, N. Y., President Frederick Ely Williamson of New York Central Railroad, which runs through these swank suburban towns, last week visited them, listened carefully, agreed to put whistles on his trains which will emit a soothing "Beep" instead of a shrill "Toot...