Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lunch time in Geneva is breakfast time in Washington. One day this week, while President Hoover was quaffing his breakfast coffee, Swiss waiters with flying coattails rushed a champagne lunch up to the suite of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald in Geneva's swank Hotel Beau Rivage. Cheerful Host MacDonald and guests representing the U. S., France, Germany and Italy, had something to celebrate. They had reached a formula for bringing Germany back into the Disarmament Conference, which the Fatherland quit last September, and they had signed a joint three-point declaration which all agreed was "extremely important...
Banker Hoyt is a director of more than 60 corporations. An office which he hugely enjoys is his chairmanship of Madison Square Garden Corp. He lives on swank Lloyd's Neck, L. I. with his second wife, the former Mrs. Nelson Doubleday. One of his ambitions is to fly better than his daughter Eleanor, 20, who last year married youthful Alexis du Pont Jr. Racing speedboats used to be his chief hobby. Since 1926 he has competed in the Gold Cup class with two white craft named Imp. In 1929 he won the Gold Challenge Cup; in 1930 made...
...Count Georg Leo von Caprivi who succeeded Prince Bismarck in 1890 and is remembered by the Fatherland because he won her so much African territory, notably the crooked strip called "Caprivi's Finger." Last week the Chancellorship fell like a ripe pippin into the calmly outstretched hand of swank, sardonic, intriguing Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher who is a full general...
...last week but spring in the heart of Luigi Pinto, fruit dealer of No. 1827 South 16th St., Philadelphia. His three boys, Salvatore, 27; Angelo, 24; Biagio, 20, the apples of his fruit dealer's eye, were holding their first joint art exhibition at Philadelphia's swank Mellon Galleries. The exhibition opened with an announcement for which most modern artists would give four sound teeth: four of the Pinto Brothers' paintings have been sold to Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the Argyrol tycoon with the big modern art museum in Merion. Pa. Even better, the almost legendary...
...Trinity's assets are some $18,000,000, mostly in real estate, the income of which goes to its chapels to charities and missions, to sister churches (even swank St. Thomas's on Fifth Avenue was glad of Trinity's help when it was getting started...