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Since then the Negroes had got along excellently with the villagers, with British troops near them, with hard-working Land Army girls. They had worked hard and well. Off duty, they had the freedom of the town. Said Private Richard Sessions, onetime locker boy for a swank Minnesota club, in University English: "I rather thought the English people would be a bit prejudiced toward members of my race, but it's not true at all. They've been extremely nice...
Condè Nast met Patcèvitch, appropriately, at a swank Manhattan party. Young Patcèvitch, with his lean, cultured face and Vogueish good manners, was on his rapid way up in a Wall Street brokerage house. He had been in the U.S. only since 1923. Son of a White Russian civil governor, he was educated at the Imperial Naval Academy, served as liaison officer between the Russians and British on the Eastern Front. During the Russian Revolution he went to work for the Near East Relief in Persia and Turkey. There he met Americans who gave him valuable...
Describing a "pep talk" given by MacLeish to OWI field officers at Washington's swank Carlton Hotel, O'Donnell printed in full the $6-a-plate menu, smacked his lips over "a bar with Martini, Manhattan and Daiquiri cocktails, plus scotch highballs for a starter, a dry white wine with the fish, a sturdy burgundy with the meat and all topped off with coffee and liqueurs, cigars and cigarets." Afterwards a "visiting fireman of war information" remarked: "And now I'm supposed to go back home and tell them we all must sacrifice and reduce our standard...
...ailing Blues Singer Ida Cox at Barney Josephson's downtown Café Society, a Manhattan Mecca for jazz connoisseurs. Result: Hazel Scott has been entertaining Café Society audiences ever since. Two years ago Showman Josephson opened a Cafe Society Uptown to house her art with greater swank, now finds it packed nightly with Scott fans: socialites, Broadway sophisticates, savants-about-town. Celebrities regard her with reverence, movie stars ask her for autographs. When Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkeley (They Were Expendable) came to New York, he picked out Hazel Scott on the welcoming platform, greeted her with...
...film, S. P. Eagle had no business. He had nothing more than the bare idea for the picture. And he was close to starving. The apocryphal story has it that Mr. Eagle thereupon invited Hollywood's most expensive authors to dinner at Dave Chasen's swank restaurant, ordered the best that Mr. Chasen had, disclosed his idea, picked the writers clean of theirs, and then walked out, leaving the check...