Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hounds. After the death of Cleveland's Myron Timothy Herrick, Frederick Henry Prince was mentioned for Ambassador to France but New Jersey's plump, influential Senator Edge beat him to it. Other interests of Businessman Prince are his big America's Cup yacht Weetamoe and the swank Myopia Country Club which he and his friends founded, taking the name from the fact that most of them were nearsighted...
...shrewd guess on Burns & Allen's radio salary: $2.000 per week. Combined with cinema and vaudeville profits they make some $5,000 per week, live in a swank apartment on Manhattan's Central Park South. Gracie Allen, a normal adult, chafes under a growing reputation for living her comedy character...
...parts syrup, three parts rum), is a moving spirit in the Club of Odd Volumes, whose headquarters is a former stable on Beacon Hill. He has written three books on the Caribbean, owns many an odd volume, belongs to a dozen learned societies and most of Boston's swank clubs. He likes to sail and fish. He is the only member of the United Fruit directorate whose father was a member of the original Boston Fruit Co. which was formed in 1899. He was 65 last week...
...made only ten Atlantic round trips. She boasted "The Only Street Afloat," a thoroughfare 450 ft. long in the ship's belly. Down this mimic Rue de la Paix wealthy Brazilians, Argentinians and Chileans have strolled to buy in smart ship shops every French luxury imaginable, including swank motor cars. Last week the fire, starting in an unoccupied first-class cabin, swept up to the radio room, roared down to destroy the Rue de la Paix with all its luxuries, spurted from portholes with such fury that it burned up the ropes of the first lifeboat lowered, dumped seven...
...fifth annual races, run off last week at Miami Municipal Airport, had been threatened by Depression. Prize money was reduced, few cups were donated. There was no free gasoline for contestants. The show needed an angel. Up stepped bristle-bearded Henry Latham Doherty, utility tycoon who lately bought swank Miami hotels and beach clubs. Alert to the promotion value of the meet he posted $2,500 and a cup for an amateur pilot's race from Daytona Beach to Miami, at the end of a pilgrimage sponsored by the U. S. Amateur Air Pilots' Association. Also he invited...