Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution forbids U. S. officeholders accepting foreign titles. But to permit General Pershing a knighthood by George V, Congress passed an act allowing all U. S. warriors to accept swank titles of Allied Powers...
Astor. The swank thing was done by the U. S. House of Astor (originally German) a generation...
William Waldorf Astor (born in New York City) moved to England in 1890, became naturalized in 1899, was created Baron Astor in 1916, Viscount Astor a year later, died in 1919. His son, the present Waldorf Viscount Astor, last week did the most un-swank thing possible, closed his magnificent Thames-side mansion "Cliveden" (where Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford were presented to George V and Queen Mary...
...Swank Spanish airmen have been a corps d'elite, have strutted in natty green uniforms, are now reduced to mere khaki...
Near Crawfordsville, Ind., Lawrence Swank accelerated his automobile, sped up the road, fearing that someone was shooting at him when a missile tore through the hood of his car. The missile: a 2½ in. meteorite...