Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in its history, swank Seligmann Galleries held a contemporary U. S. show priced from $10-$250; Valentine Gallery offered Louis Eilshemius watercolors at from $50 to $75; Ferargil Galleries exhibited unrecognized U. S. painters, sold their works...
Saks Fifth Avenue has long been a leader in swank merchandising, and its modernistic window dressing is a model for all alert storekeepers. Chief credit for the Saks' smartness is usually given to Herbert L. Redman, onetime printer's apprentice who emigrated from Great Britain at 20. Last week, haying titillated the classes for some ten years. Storekeeper Redman went downtown to see if he could excite the masses as managing director of Saks 34th Street. Back in Manhattan last week after a six-month trip around the world was Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, gay, hard-bitten speculator...
...Puppy Special," a baby Austin, called every day last week. The large blue trucks with cream paneling called three times. Along Philadelphia's swank, suburban Main Line, in & around socialite Hewlett, L. I. and in Reading, Pa. they stopped at the homes of William Wallace Atterbury, William Wistar Comfort, Mrs. Isaac Clothier Jr., Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and hundreds of others in which were 4,000 dogs, 30 cats and one raccoon. On each truck in large green letters were the words CANINE CATERING CO. above a small green Scottie. At each stop a gauntleted, high-booted young...
...Roelif Hasbrouck Brooks of swank St. Thomas' Church stood by a bronze casket blanketed with irises, orchids and lilies of the valley. In the casket lay all that 89 years of life had left of Mrs. Vanderbilt, dowager of her family, who died last fortnight (TIME, April 30). Nearby in deep black stood her three surviving children, bearded Cornelius, long-faced Gertrude (Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney), dark Gladys (Countess Szechenyi). Officiating with Dr. Brooks was Rt. Rev. Ernest Milmore Stires, Episcopal Bishop of Long Island, who once was rector of St. Thomas' and who is more in demand...
Last month Chicago's swank Union League Club papered a private dining room with nearly 2,000 worthless bonds and stock certificates, called it the Million-dollar Room. Last week in Chicago a noisy rabble of 10,000 bondholders from 22 states marched down Michigan Boulevard tossing equally worthless bonds on the street, trampling them with vicious whoops. Led by Governor William Langer of North Dakota, they shouted, "We've been robbed." displayed banners reading: "WE HAVE BONDS, BUT NO BREAD." "DILLINGER AND CAPONE ARE AMATEURS." Thousands of spectators jampacked the sidewalks as the three-mile procession rolled...