Word: swankest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week, with the pomp of a court circular, did Buchmanism-heretofore quartered in Brown's Hotel, London - announce the acquisition of famed 18th Century Lord Clive's 34-room house in swankest Mayfair. Minimum price in the neighborhood: $50,000. Dr. Buchman, born in unswank Pennsburg, Pa., will make Berkeley Square his home...
...only the swankest art show Los Angeles had ever had, but the biggest. Some of the numerous masterpieces on view were lent by Connoisseurs Marion Davies, Sam Katz and Edward G. Robinson. Gilt-edged treasures included: two Titians, three Tintorettos, two Rembrandts, four Reynolds, such old favorites as Millet's Man With a Hoe, such modern equivalents of September Morn as Duchamp's Nude Descending the Stairs. So great a glut of masterpieces overtaxed the capacity of the Art Association's gallery (an annex to the Town House on Wilshire Boulevard, originally built for San Francisco...
...Nevertheless London is such a rearmament boom town in 1937 that, even if nobody came to the Coronation-and by lowest estimates 2,100,000 are coming*-the hotels would be overcrowded as they were last spring and summer, the theatres jammed and head waiters (usually Italians in the swankest English places) as cocky as in 1929. Today in London almost no top-class hotel rooms for Coronation time remain available. His Majesty's Government bought the best months ago, and forehanded folk the rest. Class A & B tourists from the U. S. who would normally stay...
Most envied airman fighting with the Reds in Spain was Texan Major Frederic A. Lord. He had been given last week a ship with the very latest Hispano-Suiza "moteur canon," swankest instrument of Death. This engine has a hollow propeller shaft and through it fires an oversize machine gun or undersized field piece discharging explosive, tracer, incendiary or armor-piercing shells...
Residents of Atlanta, Ga. a decade and more ago used to wonder what went on inside the handsome, white-columned mansion which stands at Peachtree Road and Wesley Avenue in the city's swankest district. Everyone knew it was the "Imperial Palace" of the Ku Klux Klan and that in it labored Hiram Wesley Evans, the Imperial Wizard and all-American antiPope...