Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the Fierce-Arrow plant at Buffalo two swank blue limousines were sent to Washington. Both were rated to do 110 m.p.h., both fitted throughout with bullet-proof glass, both had bodies armored with an invisible protection of bullet-proof steel plate. One was addressed to J. Edgar Hoover, chief bandit hunter of the Department of Justice, the other to Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Central Africa, the short, stocky, reddish-haired white man who reached Manhattan on a slow transatlantic boat last week is known as The Young Python. But his passport, the Social Register, the 1914 Harvard Classbook, the tax rolls of Rockland County, N. Y. and the corporation registry of Lugene (swank Manhattan opticians) all list him as Frederic Grosvenor Carnochan. Always well off, he could afford to become an amateur ethnologist. During the past decade he concentrated on the Wanyamwesi, a long-nosed, curly-haired tribe of 4,000,000 members who inhabit 30,000 sq. mi. south of Lake Victoria...
...soon for any man to know the answer to any of these but one thing was certain. For the next few months at least Poland will be run by the same little group of old campaign cronies who used to meet night after night at the swank Cafe Europejska for champagne and unofficial Cabinet meetings, the "Pilsudski Colonels...
...embittered man of 64, Glenn Curtiss has been dead for nearly five years. But Grover Cleveland Loening, B. Sc., M. A., C. E., F. R. Ae. S., F. I. A. S. is at 47 a curiously youngish man to be one of aviation's pioneers. A swank, dapper socialite who still flies often and badly, he is rich, independent, honest, can well afford to tread on many a famed toe, call many a spade by its rightful name. Some typical Loening evaluations...
...Middleboro (Mass.) a group of first-generation Italians outraged the socialite Yankees of the swank Cabot Club by organizing a club of their own called the John Cabot Club, named for 15th Century Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot), Italian navigator credited with the discovery of North America...