Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Socialites of Manhattan's swank Brook Club tendered a test dinner last week to one of the chief arbiters of French wine elegance. M. le Baron Marcel Fouquier is president of the Academic des Oenophiles (wine lovers) which yields in dignity and discrimination not even to the Academic Francaise...
They sat on the edges of their chairs, teetering, twisting. Their clothes and manners showed that few of them were at ease amid the splendors of Manhattan's swank Ritz-Carlton Hotel. But it was less their surroundings than the fateful decision that each & every one of them was about to make that caused them to squirm nervously...
...light brown. Mrs. Wright, a onetime school-teacher whose mother was German, has all the appearance of a white. With keen intellectual curiosity they awaited the births of their two children. Jane, 14, is distinctly brown. Barbara, 13, looks like a little white girl. The children attend the swank, progressive Ethical Culture School...
...cooperation with our President and believe this spirit emanates from the whole people." Until last week that was the only political pronouncement the grey-eyed, gracious widow of Calvin Coolidge had made since his death. Last week before 1,500 applauding Massachusetts Republicans she appeared at Heaton Hall in swank Stockbridge to eulogize and hearten her State's Republican candidates, to predict for them a sweeping victory in next month's elections...
...Odlum. Bonwit Teller differed from the other Odlum odds & ends in that it made about $500,000 annually until 1930. Mr. Odlum differed from most of his Wall Street elders in that he made fortunes while they were losing them. He concluded that the logical person to run a swank women's specialty shop was a woman. His wife was no swankier than he (they live simply in suburban Forest Hills, prefer Utah to Europe for vacationing), but after she wrote a report for him on the basis of a month's inspection of the store, "Tenney" Odlum...