Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Valentine Laura Chandor, 59, headmistress of Manhattan's swank Spence School, founder of the Chandor School which merged with Spence three years ago (TIME, May 16, 1932); in Manhattan...
...indirection Dr. Lewis told off some notable Groton virtues. Groton boys use good English, so good that six have received 100% on the College Board Examination. Their manners are flawless. They are never uncouth. They obey all the major laws. Their record as public servants is unique among swank schools. And if spiritual ideals are less evident, that is no fault of Endicott Peabody...
...Annie Laurie" was born in Wisconsin, daughter of Civil War General Benjamin Sweet. Educated at swank finishing schools, she went on the stage, quit when she was handed a burlesque role. On the strength of several letters she had had printed in the Chicago Tribune, she got a job there, held it a week. In 1890 she went to San Francisco, was hired by the Examiner. She had a theory that "a woman has a distinct advantage over a man in reporting if she has sense. . . . Men always are good to women." One of the first things...
...still a secret last week, though a poorly kept one. Long before the official cablegram arrived from Pittsburgh, friends rushed into Madrid's swank new Café Fuentelarreyna to blurt the news to Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes: The picture he had finished so quickly that he had had no time to varnish it before shipping it to the U. S. last August, had just won the $1,000 first prize at the 33rd Carnegie International show. It was no less exciting news in Pittsburgh, where Carnegie directors have long had a fondness for modern Spanish painting, have...
...native city since the fall of the monarchy. Equipped with Caviedes murals is not only the Café Fuentelarreyna, but the Chicote Bar, a beer cellar known as "Zum Lustigen Walfisch." a drugstore in the Calle Sevilla, the bar of the Capitol Building, the Lyons Silk Shop, and the swank offices of International Telephone...