Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mill Neck, on Long Island's swank North Shore estate of onetime Aircraft Manufacturer Grover Cleveland Loening, 500 socialites gathered for a beauty contest between "16 Gorgeous, Glorious, Glamorous Girls, a Breath-taking Panoply of Pulchritude" enlisted from the neighborhood's own select ranks. Among the contestants were Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as Miss Wheatley Hills, Mrs. John R. Fell as Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then...
...proud role of telling Englishmen that Germany is out for naval parity with them in the North Sea fell last week to that astute young scion of Prussia's old nobility, monocled Joachim von Ribbentrop who, after coming unscathed through the War as a swank Torgau Hussar, was briefly reduced to selling whiskey...
...Foreign Office permanent officials viewed Sir Sam with alarm. The new Foreign Secretary, so far as they know, has no views on foreign affairs, many on dancing at swank night clubs, tennis playing, and fancy figure skating, a pastime which he pursues in skin-tight black professional figure-skater costume not only at St. Moritz in winter but in London at all seasons on socialite Grosvenor House's rink...
Married. Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs, 27, mural painter, decorator, stylist, writer, musicologist, beauteous only daughter of Socialite Charles de Loosey Oelrichs of Manhattan, Newport and Palm Beach; and Edward Frank ("Eddy") Duchin, 26, registered pharmacist, orchidaceous band leader at Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino; in Manhattan. Conductor Duchin's longtime theme song: "Margie...
...saying, Father Coughlin departed mopping his brow, left town next day to spend the night with a friendly plutocratic, capitalistic stockbroker named Francis P. Keelon at swank suburban Larchmont...