Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Fletcher B. Swank after four years in the House was beaten for renomination in the same primary...
Said Bishop Warren L. Rogers of Ohio, visiting at swank St. Bartholomew's: "It hasn't a ghost of a chance...
Because the swank, sword-handy youths of socialite German university Studenten Korps have always been Jew-haters and fierce nationalists, they championed Adolf Hitler from the start. When his Munich beer hall Putsch fizzled in 1923 and Leader Hitler was clapped into a fortress, loyal "Nazi cells" in seven German universities were among the few brownshirt organizations to carry on. Last week came the first open rift between Korpstudenten and a Chancellor who, as one of his first acts, legalized their gory duels...
...gruff Mr. Holabird is rarely seen in public except at the opera. An expert fly caster, he modestly refuses to exhibit his trophies on the walls of the Holabird & Root office at 333 North Michigan Avenue, a skyscraper they designed. Last week he was practicing his fishing skill at swank Coleman Lake Club in northern Wisconsin...
...Neudeck in an old-fashioned landauer. But for Royalty would this do? For Siam's little King, who dotes on the picturesque and is forever filming it with a Leica still camera and a Bell & Howell cinemachine. a landauer would have been just the thing. But swank Col. Oscar von Hindenburg insisted on a Mercedes. As the big car swept up to Neudeck an entire company of Reichswehr troops stood at wooden-soldier salute, flanked by peasants in bright, old-fashioned East Prussian costumes. Whrrrr went His Majesty's camera while the peasants roared: "Hoch Siam! Hoch Siam...