Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Economically independent conscripts are asked not to swank: "Let every soldier, whoever he is, try to make his pay and rations suffice. In this way we shall arrive not only at equality of status but equality of service...
Among those who witnessed the weighing-in on Cat Cay's swank little dock was New York Sportsman Tommy Shevlin, one of the best big-game anglers in the world,* whom Mrs. Sears displaced as world's record holder for blue marlin. Her fish weighed 94 Ib. more than the 636-pounder he caught in the same waters on June 19, 1935-with a 54-thread line. Angling authorities thought Mary Sears's catch the largest game fish ever taken with a 24-thread line...
...mighty"); by Exile Thomas Mann ("Fascism has overstepped its mark ... its decline is already determined."); by Eduard Benes, ex-President of Czecho-Slovakia ("a kind of United States of Europe will be the end. . . ."). After a collection ($1,653) but no hymns, the delegates trooped to the swank St. Moritz Hotel for a reception...
...first time the outstanding opposition party in Parliament, jubilant young Nazis swaggered through Budapest streets, thronged their brilliantly lighted, swank, Berlin-financed headquarters...
...Swank. Manhattan's glamor spots are short on entertainment, long on drinking, atmosphere, names, the bill. Snooty, half filled with celebrities, half with celebrity-chasers, offering Lucullan food but not even the twang of a guitar, is Jack & Charlie's legendary "21." After midnight, debs, young Roosevelts, Beatrice Lillie, Tallulah Bankhead, lesser fry, haunt Sherman Billingsley's cool, decorative Stork Club. More on the Social Register side, less on the Who's Who, and both hard on the purse, are pugnacious John Perona's zebra-striped, rhumba-flavored El Morocco, the newer and elegant Fefe...