Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major Stanley, a successful ex-stockbroker, was made Minister of Labor last year brands National Government a sham. To Conservatives nothing seems more right and proper. They assume that Oliver Stanley is briskly, but not too briskly, on his way to becoming Prime Minister.* Last week he stumbled, and swank Mayfair was pained. In Sheffield fierce riots broke out, all because the new Minister of Labor was not quite clicking...
Fortnight ago Garabed Bishirgian went down to his model farm in Surrey, where he fancies prize pigs. There far from his swank Park Lane house, where the extravagance of his fabulous stag parties awed even his rich friends, the greasy, thick-set little Armenian contemplated disaster. Garabed Bishirgian was now the "Pepper King," and, as all Britons knew, the pepper pool was due for a grand smash...
...pale, haggard man mumbled the words to himself as he slumped lower in his chair in a fourth-floor apartment of the swank colonnaded Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay one day last week. India manager of the great London grain firm of Strauss & Co., he had just been ordered to close his office, stop all payments at once. Presently a messenger arrived with a cablegram. It was from his wife in England. "Try not to worry. Good luck and love." Slowly the man dragged himself across the room to the window. . . . Later that day when they had removed his battered...
...Protestant churches in Chattanooga, Tenn., First Baptist is the largest, First Presbyterian the richest, St. Paul's Episcopal the most swank. Last week at St. Paul's the Episcopal diocese of Tennessee was holding its annual convention, and rich Zeboim Charles Patten, chairman of the church's endowment corporation, was telling assembled laymen and clergy about investments. Up rose Rev. Alfred Loaring-Clark, diocesan chairman of religious education...
...night went The March of Time's photoreporters (in top hats & tails) with the first sound-camera equipment ever permitted inside the old opera house during a performance. From a grandtier box wired for sound two of the reporters filmed the action and music on the stage, the swank audience. Others followed Gatti-Casazza backstage, saw what he saw through his private peephole to the stage, heard what he heard in his office as Aida progressed, caught his unposed facial expressions as he listened to Martinelli's high notes, to the thunderous applause. Finally, the camera watched...