Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swank poker game Abie, beaten on the first hand, demands to see his opponents' cards. He is loftily told that it is a gentleman's game; hands are not shown. Next day Abie informs a friend that the game was a good one; he won $900, lost nothing after the first hand...
Widow MacDougall is now 65, grey, pretty. She is still short, plump, neat and clean. Though frugal (waitresses in her Grand Central restaurant pay $10 a week for their jobs), she lives on swank Park Avenue. Her daughter Gladys married Harry Montrose Graham two years ago. Son Allan, 37, has had complete charge of the coffee business for several years (he put it in cans), is the financial brains of the organization. He is smallish, neat, curly-mustached, rides to hounds with the Spring Valley Harriers near his home at Convent, N. J. But Mrs. MacDougall is still the decorative...
...watch tower, U. S. Minister to China Nelson T. Johnson watched the terrific show. In London the Government of His Majesty King George announced that plans to evacuate every British subject from Shanghai's International Settlement were ready. A British ship loaded with extra munitions steamed Chinaward. In swank Shanghai hotels the white women were getting scared at last, refused to go to bed, sat in the lobbies hour after hour. To Washington cabled Admiral M. M. Taylor, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet: "The Japanese have been forced to slow down their advance because...
There will be fewer men "wearing the seats of their pants shiny" on Chicago Great Western Railroad after Jan. 15, according to energetic, hard-fisted President Patrick H. Joyce (TIME, Nov. 16). Ancient tradition of railroading is that passenger departments must be represented by swank offices in the business and shopping centres of major cities. Convenient but expensive, this idea was challenged for the first time last week when Great Western announced it would abolish all such offices. Passengers in Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, Minneapolis will have to go to the station for their tickets; the road will not even...
According to Roscoe Fawcett, who put up at the swank Hotel St. Regis last week on one of his periodical visits to Manhattan, the Fawcetts were implored by large independent distributors of magazines to publish a competitor to Ballyhoo, which is circulated solely by American News Co. At first they demurred, until they heard that Bernarr Macfadden was about to enter the lists. Then, because it promised to be a free-for-all and not a private Fawcett v. Delacorte feud, the Fawcetts decided upon Hooey. First issue of 400,000 copies appeared to be a sellout. The first issue...