Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minor reason for his victory was that he shrewdly took with him to Washington the publicity-wise ex-secretary of the War Industries Board, Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime executive editor of the defunct New York World. At headquarters in Washington's swank Hotel Carlton...
Towering, robust Congressman Bacon, son of the late Ambassador to France, pulled a potent oar on Harvard's crew. After Harvard Law School he went into banking, dabbled in politics, went to war. His swank constituency has kept him steadily in Congress since 1923. Privately he moves in one of Washington's tightest little social sets, but among his fellow Congressmen he plays the good fellow with convincing affability. Ruddy, blue-eyed and handsome, he was once picked by famed Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka as the ideal type of "future American." ("What are they trying to do, make...
...that he "hasn't missed a Harvard-Yale football game since 1905," has lately been specializing on the South where Negro delegates to the Republican convention are to be had for a price. Last fortnight disgruntled Southern Democrats had a chance to look Republican Fish over at swank Aiken, S. C. Last week he spoke by radio over a Southern hookup, inviting all those who were "deceived and disgusted" with their national Administration to "cross over" to Candidate Fish...
...spectacle to which he referred was an 11-ft., 7-ton statue of Christ propped against the wall in London's swank Leicester Galleries, the latest work of a heavyset, U. S.-born Jewish sculptor, Jacob Epstein. Entitled Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), the great bas-relief slab showed a huge square head, nearly as large as the torso, with thick sad lips, sightless almond eyes, and two great hands tied with rope. That was about...
...South End ragamuffins picketed the annual show of Boston's swank Vincent Club with placards demanding the "resignation" from the club of Mary Curley, daughter of Massachusetts' Governor James Michael Curley and not a Vincent member. Picked up by police, the ragamuffins said that Kermit Roosevelt Jr. and another Harvard freshman hired them as a joke on the clubgirls...