Word: swanked
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...cast our vote for the Harvard indifference: let the solemn asses parade in their swank derbies and their gorgeous pants, let them smoke cigarettes in long holders and look with drooping bored eyes upon the swarming life of the world: but do not, we pray to heaven, bless Harvard's going collegiate...
...more swank ritual is observed by sitting in a "butt" or comfortable shelter and allowing a crescent-moon shaped line of human "beaters" to herd the game gently along until it can be flushed so as to fly directly over...
Translations. "What did choose mean?" people asked. Reliable Vermonters were found who said it was a cautious colloquialism for "want." Funnyman Will Rogers and others declared it as foxy a word as an adroit politician ever selected. Columnist Heywood Broun thought it had "magnificent swank." Senator Bruce of Maryland, with Democratic irony, quoted Macbeth: "If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown...
...before the vote. A few regular Republicans such as Mr. French of Idaho, Mr. Green of Iowa, Mr. Luce of Massachusetts, Mr. Tincher of Kansas rallied round Mr. Burton; but the majority of votes which rescued the President came from unfamiliar sources: 62 Democrats (from Mr. Jacobstein to Mr. Swank); the lone Socialist, Mr. Berger; the entire Farmer-Laborite group, Messrs. Carss, Kvale, Wefald; Republican insurgents such as Mr. Frear of Wisconsin, Mr. Sosnow-ski, the Pole from Detroit, Mr. La Guardia of New York, who is now trying to bait Secretary Kellogg. It was a wave of pacifism rather...
...post of Counselor of the Legation at Peking. His salary- was to be $8,000 a year. Neither is Mr. Dulles extravagant. He can easily live on his salary, but with his rise in rank and diplomatic importance he must entertain accord- ingly and put on the swank that is expected of a legate of the U. S. Said he in a letter to Secretary of State Kellogg: "The financial burden involved in the acceptance of the higher positions in the diplomatic service is such that outside resources are increasingly necessary. Under these circumstances it seems unwise...