Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desire to rebuild. He had an apartment in midtown Manhatttan, in West 40th Street opposite the Public Library whose engineering room he still occasionally haunts, and near the Engineers Club which he no longer will visit. In that apartment he kept a few terrifying but harmless lightning machines. The swank St. Regis Hotel whither he moved two years ago was no place for such devices. Dr. Tesla contented himself with studying four pet pigeons which nested in his rolltop desk. Maids complained. He moved...
...Spying out good night life for his majestic son-in-law, gay old Prince Svasti last week bewitched the manager and bartender of Manhattan's new, swank Terrace Club by letting them smoke one of his fat, perfumed special cigarets whose wrappings are lotus leaves...
...Commander's right. Most of the audience wore at least a bit of blue. Women in azure dresses and hats wore brooches with the motto: Fear God! Fear Naught! Men wore blue enameled cufflinks with the same motto in their blue cuffs. Outside Albert Hall waited several swank blue motor cars with the radiator emblem Fear God! Fear Naught! The blue blood of the British ruling class was up?this was the charter mass-meeting of Commander Locker-Lampson's blue-shirted "Sentinels of Empire," founded "to peacefully fight Bolshevism and clear out the Reds...
...Manhattan. Commended in a telegram from Bishop William Thomas Manning of the Diocese of New York, last week's meeting was held in the swank Hotel Plaza. Present as guests were Suffragan Bishops Arthur Selden Lloyd and Charles Kendall Gilbert of the Diocese of New York, Dr. Dubois S. Norris of Manhattan's Central Presbyterian Church,f District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain, Lawyer & Mrs. Herbert Livingston Satterlee, William Jay Schieffelin, Lawyer Samuel Scoville Jr. of Philadelphia, Mrs. Robert E. Speer and some 1,000 more. To hear direct testimony, to see Buchmanism at first hand had they come. They...
...shared her husband's political set-back in 1892 when he was defeated for the vice-presidency. Five years later she went with him to England when he was special ambassador to Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Again, when an-other touch of U. S. swank was needed, the Reids were sent to the coronation of Edward VII. In 1905 President Roosevelt made Whitelaw Reid Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, first-ranking U. S. diplomatic post. In London the Reids were phenomenally popular and achieved a social prestige never before or since equalled by Americans...