Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swell fellow." He had a fine seashore house on nearby Warwick Neck, a spacious Dutch Colonial mansion with weather-stained shingles and white columns only a field away from the estate of Rhode Island's rich U. S. Senator Peter Goelet Gerry. Also nearby was the swank yacht-going Warwick Country Club, to which belong John D. Rockefeller Jr., Harold S. Vanderbilt, many another bigwig. Senator Gerry and club members often graced Neighbor Rettich's lawn parties with their presence...
...regard men of the sword as an elite caste apart, no amount of fulmination against Germany last week made life any the less pleasant for Lieutenant von Wick. This spruce young German officer lately crossed the Channel for training with the 2nd Battalion of King George's swank Grenadier Guards, a British officer being "exchanged" to Germany at the same time for study with Adolf Hitler's military elite...
...women's bodies, alternated between harlots, duchesses and his daughter Lavinia for his models. Still painting at the age of 90. his trembling hands and failing eyes produced the technique that led to French Impressionism. The bargaining instinct never left him. Wanting to be buried in the swank Church of the Frari, he offered to swap the monks a new Pieta for a fine funeral. Death caught him before the picture was finished, but the monks burned extra candles for their part of the bargain...
...Cleveland he has two studios, one downtown for work, another for parties at his swank country place. "Beaverbrook." The Beaverbrook studio is built at the water's edge so that Ceramist Ait ken can shoot ducks from the window. All the furniture in this studio has been specially designed by Ceramist Aitken, from the polished maple radio to the bronze portrait of himself. The ceramics in his bathroom are of standard design...
...Governor General Edouard Renard. Last year he indignantly resigned a snug Parisian job as president of the Paris Municipal Council when his good friend Jean Chiappe was forced to quit as Chief of the Paris Police. Soaring with him over the steaming, noisome jungle went his swank second wife, Dutch relict of a U. S. soap manufacturer, Michael Winburn (Omega, Cadum). So far as could be learned, the $390,000 contents of Mme Renard's jewel case are either lost in the Congo or stolen by some ignorant black. In Paris last week undertakers mended the seven mangled bodies...