Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disgusted with London, even amid its present brilliant boom, were two U. S. showgirls who returned from swank Dorchester House last week on the French liner Lafayette. "You fall over dukes and princes at Dorchester House," admitted Blonde Bonnie Clare. "The real trouble is," explained Brunette Delia Carroll, "that the ones who are in earnest have no money at all and the rich ones are triflers. A really fine man asked me to wait while he went out to India for three years...
...night last week five candelabra flickered through the gloom of Boston's Union Congregational Church-the church in down-at-heel South End to which Rev. Dwight Jacques Bradley went after relinquishing a swank one in Newton, Mass. (TIME, Sept. 24). A mixed congregation of 600 gazed in interested bewilderment at a slim, bare-foot girl in the chancel. She wore nothing but a long flowing gown. Her name was Eleanor Schirmer and she was a Newton socialite whose father was a Boston banker...
...SWANK - Sherwood Anderson- Centaur Press...
...Winesburg, Ohio, A Story Teller's Story, a few others. If there were a U. S. literary pantheon he would be in it. But Author Anderson, like many a lesser man, goes on talking when he is no longer on the air. His latest book, characteristically entitled No Swank, is a collection of 17 articles, some of which have been published in various magazines or newspapers. Anderson lovers will want the little book for their library, will take it as kindly as it was meant...
Whether or not he has a "style," Sherwood Anderson's style of writing-pondering, whittling, awkwardly echolalic-is all his own. No Swank is trademarked on every page. With the late great Chekhov, Anderson shares the faculty of the truthful blurt: "Almost always, when one of your friends gets kicked down stairs, you're glad. It is a nasty fact, but it is a truth." No matter how sarcastic he feels, he cannot be nasty about it: "There is too much of this bunk about a man having a mind because he has read the classics...