Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty-six-year-old C. Bersford Marshall is an architect with a reputation for doing swank Mayfair apartments in the modern taste. In his meteoric career Architect Marshall has designed only four houses. Last week the Royal Warrant Holders' Association commissioned him to do his fifth house as a jubilee present for King George. Reminded that His Majesty is in possession of a score of palaces and castles plus houses galore, the Royal Warrant Holders' somewhat foggy spokesman conjectured that George V will probably give the house, located at Burhill in Surrey, to "some subject who has performed...
...hard-boiled Nazi chief of Berlin police, beamed and bubbled with good humor last week. He decreed that Stresemannstrasse, named after Germany's late, great Nobel Peace Prize winning Foreign Minister (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926), should be renamed Saarlandestrasse. Since beauteous Widow Stresemann, once the "Queen Kathe" of swank Berlin night clubs, happens to be a Jewess, Admiral von Levetzow was congratulated last week on having winged two birds with one pellet...
...Manhattan, socialites hung themselves with lamb chops, mushrooms, alarm clocks, lobsters, hot water bottles and sausages and gathered in a swank night club to dance. They were dressed as their own dreams to do honor to Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali who paints realistic pictures of horrid fantasies and was about to sail for Europe after a Manhattan exhibition (TIME, Nov. 26). On the stairway stood a bathtub clotted with mud, oysters and, later, cigaret butts. Dali's handsome wife wore a dress of transparent red paper, a headpiece decorated with lobsters and a doll's head, representing necrophilia...
Figuring that they are not, Pioneer Richard Taylor, famed English racing driver, has made eight flying trips to the U. S. in the past two years selling the S. S. with phenomenal success in California and Florida. As every swank Briton knows, there are few cars on His Majesty's roads swanker than an S. S. Not to know what these initials mean is as odd in Mayfair as to appear puzzled when someone mentions the P. M. (Prime Minister). S. S. once stood for Standard Swallow, now stands simply for S. S. Ltd. Last week Pioneer Taylor chalked...
...Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange is tanned, wiry President E. Burd Grubb of the New York Curb, second largest exchange in the U. S. He was Delaware River champion swimmer, amateur welterweight boxing champion of Philadelphia (1911). He holds a course record of 70 at the swank Somerset Hills (N. J.) golf club. His British uncle, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, last year's challenger for the America's Cup, taught him to fly, but up until two years ago he preferred to streak across the New Jersey flats in a custom-built Mercedes-Benz. Today...