Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard graduation (1913) Mr. Earle roamed Germany and Austria for two years, served in the Navy during the War, is now vice president of Pennsylvania Sugar Co., a director of the Philadelphia Record. Dark, handsome, husky, he lives with his wife and four children at Haverford on the swank Main Line...
...Jarboro's debut the Hippodrome was sold out days in advance, standees were thick in the aisles. From swank Striver's Row to the river slums, Harlem came downtown to welcome her, filled one-third of the house. Tall and good-looking, dark enough to need no makeup in the role of an Ethiopian slave, Jarboro revealed the husky voice of her race, rich in texture, not perfectly schooled. At the end of the aria "Ritorna vincitor" she was recalled three times, not by Negro cheers only...
...years American Telephone & Telegraph's chief traveling auditor. While still an undergraduate Bill Young published financial articles, invented a new type of slide rule. His method of calculating security values involves the use of 30 separate ratios. Now 32, married but childless, he lives on swank Sutton Place, uses his yacht Arab as a summer home...
...discovered by a few Britishers who like to dress for dinner in semitropical climates. They encouraged Mallorcans to keep prices amazingly low ($1 a day for hotel room & meals). They swam staidly in the little blue bays, played tennis at the Royal Lawn Tennis Club, in El Terreno, swank suburb of medieval Palma. But in 1931 the peseta sank to a new low and a new horde overran Mallorca: U. S. hard-drinkers who wanted to live like characters in a novel by Ernest Hemingway. They set up their own bars in Mallorca's famed caves. They started...
Secretary of State Cordell Hull put aside the woes and worries of the London Economic Conference long enough last fortnight to march to Leicester Square and open an art exhibition at swank Leicester Galleries. It was no ordinary exhibit that broke busy Secretary Hull's busy routine, for on display were the latest paintings of his good friend Edward Bruce. But not until Secretary Hull, surrounded by can vases depicting Power. Industry, the Klamath River, the Cascade Mountains and the like, had said a few pleasant nothings did London and the rest of the world wake...