Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swank, cynical Prince Otto von Bismarck, grandson of the "Iron Chancellor," lives lavishly in London as German Charge d'Affaires with his moneyed and shapely Swedish wife. Princess Ann von Bismarck (Née Tengbom). daughter of a famed Stockholm architect. Last week Prince Bismarck was chosen by Chancellor Hitler to touch off a stick of disarmament dynamite...
...this test not only the largest "gold hoarder" on its list but also a respectable lawyer whom Prosecutor Medalie called "exceedingly able." Born in Brooklyn, Mr. Campbell was graduated from Harvard Law School in 1894, is a director of U. S. and British insurance companies, belongs to such swank Manhattan clubs as Union, Metropolitan (where he lives) and Century. When he filed his civil suit against the Chase Bank, he well knew he was inviting the Government to prosecute. His argument in that suit will become his defense in the criminal action, to wit: 1) Congress has no Constitutional power...
Where Illinois failed to extradite him last year for embezzlement, the Federal Government last week was trying its powerful hand at getting Samuel Insull, Chicago's runaway utilitarian, out of Greece on criminal bankruptcy charges. Into his suite at Athens' swank Grande Bretagne Hotel marched Greek policemen with an order for his arrest. Fugitive Insull, aged 73, lost his temper, sputtered and fumed while his rooms were being searched, his papers seized. Day prior he had told the Athens correspondent of the New York Sun that he "never felt better." By the time he reached police headquarters...
...switched to the Democratic National Committee as a potent party propagandist among women. Distributed among 3,000 Democratic women's clubs were millions of copies of her pamphlets on the oil scandals, on civil service reform, on party history. She was long publicity director for Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel, started a smart-chart called the Washingtonian which suspended publication in 1932. In 1928 Democrat Banister was strongly anti-Smith but cast no vote. She was on the Roosevelt bandwagon early...
...promoted "big breakfast" propaganda to boost bacon for Beech-Nut Packing Co. But no competitor can approach Ivy Lee in wealth and social stature. His friends are Rockefellers, Mackays, Guggenheims, John William Davis, the late Senator Dwight Morrow. His daughter Alice was presented at Court. He lives magnificently in swank East 66th Street...