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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...
...good bet. Probably will be crowded as it isn't murderous in its prices. . . . The Mayfair: about the same as the others, a little noisier, and more expensive. . . Crawford House-to be avoided if possible. Slumming that isn't even fun. . . By the way, we almost forgot the two swanker of the Boston night spots, the Fox and Hounds and the newly created Zero Hereford. Music at both is universal, but not too good. See and be seen is the motto here...
...lanky, weather-beaten President William Foster ("Fat") Peirce who, since he came from Boston in 1892, has built Kenyon a spruce modern plant, raised an endowment of $1,600,000. Under President Peirce, Kenyon has drawn its 250 students largely from prosperous Episcopalian families, supported flourishing chapters of the swanker Greek letter fraternities rarely found on Midwestern campuses. Particularly proud are Kenyon-ites of the college's trim airport and two planes, the gift of Manhattan Lawyer Wilbur Love Cummings, Class...
Since the U. S. import duty on foreign cars was cut to 10%, Germany's swanker cars bought with blocked marks have begun to tempt U. S. socialites who have been buying their big Diesel yachts in Germany for years. Thus in 1929 the highest-priced Mercedes chassis cost $15,500 in Manhattan, costs but $8,000 today...