Word: swanker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perfume, paintings, luggage, along with nightclub business, were also slumping. Diamond prices in the New York market dropped more than 15% in a week. Asked about business, an Atlanta luggage dealer who had canceled his advance orders replied: "Confidentially, it stinks." Said the agent for Boston's two swanker nightclubs: "[Business] is positively lousy." Said an unhappy Seattle bellhop: "They're diming me to death again...
Typical U.S.O. clubhouse will be far swanker than the barren "Y" and K. of C. huts of World War I. It will have lounge rooms, free newspapers and magazines, pianos, radios, photographic darkrooms (one out of every two draftees has some kind of camera), facilities for dances, forums, hobby clubs, amateur dramatics. Only charge it is promised will be for food, cigarets and soft drinks at the snack...