Word: swankest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the King of England may not enter the House of Commons, it was the first budget speech that Edward VIII has missed in years. Every visitors' gallery was jammed with Britain's swankest. With one eye cocked at the clock the Chancellor of the Exchequer began to talk. One generality followed another. "Perhaps I may liken this budget," said he, "to the uncertain glory of an April day." (Haw! Haw! in the galleries...
...home of Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, Englewood is a solid suburban community whose weekly News lately editorialized in favor of a town incinerator which would prevent Englewood's poor from eating their fellow-citizen's garbage. Englewood's First M. E. Church, not the swankest in town but the largest and richest of the denomination in Bergen County, got its white-thatched black-browed Dr. Ball in 1931 by the usual Methodist method: accepting the man assigned by the local conference. With increasing apprehension Dr. Ball's congregation listened to Sunday sermons out of a liberal...
Magnin's is the swankest women's specialty-shop chain in the U. S. Besides the main store in San Francisco, it has shops in Seattle and in such California cities as Los Angeles, Pasadena, Hollywood, Santa Barbara, Oakland, Del Monte, Coronado. In a few stores there are collegegirl departments, similar to the debutante departments in big Manhattan specialty shops like Bonwit Teller's and Saks Fifth Avenue. In these Magnin's sells dresses as low as $22.75. But prices in general are near the top. Highest price ever paid for Magnin's ready...
Magnin's customers are the richest and swankest between the Gulf of California and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Four-fifths of them run charge accounts, and, on Magnin's balance sheet, customer accounts are nearly three times as large as inventory and amount to 45% of all assets. But Magnin's has been in the red only twice-in 1932 and in 1906, the year of the San Francisco earthquake-fire when merchandising activities had to be carried on in the Magnin house...
...Marshal Badoglio on taking command last November stated that henceforth neither the names of officers nor the movement of troops would be mentioned in dispatches. For his friend, Marshal Badoglio broke that rule last week. The world quickly learned that leading the advance from the south were those swankest of regiments, the Genoa Dragoons and Aosta Lancers. In eight days they had covered 250 miles from Dolo to the mountain slopes beyond Noghelli. Snipers fought them every mile, but failed to stay the advance. As willing to risk his own life as those of his men, monocled Graziani went with...