Word: swankier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swankier of the Conqueror's concubines found her social doings recorded even in the British press of Shanghai, which referred to her as "Mme Chiang...
...total profits ($484,405). During Depression the Hart Schaffner & Marx volume dropped 55% in number of suits & coats, even more in dollars because of the demand for cheaper lines. The decision to enter the low-priced field caused a major management upheaval and cost the company some of its swankier outlets but President Cresap's drive for volume has been successful...
...other State capital is generally to be found a low, musty, old-fashioned hotel with a stuffed elk's head and plenty of spittoons in the lobby. If the Legislature is in session rooms there will be at a premium. The capital may have a newer and swankier hotel, built between 1924 and 1929, but the farmers, the smalltown lawyers, the minor merchants who compose the bulk of State legislatures are not interested in swank. All they want for their short, frequent sessions is a cheap (about $1.50), convenient bed in a place where they can circulate from room...
...Yale '28. is a news photographer, too, with a rapidly mounting reputation in Manhattan advertising agencies and smartcharts, but he is very different from Izzy Kaplan. Always immaculately groomed, with an impressive acquaintance among New York's bright young people, he flash lights all the swankier bars, nightclubs, balls, routs & receptions. With determination and no little skill Photographer Zerbe has dedicated his life to recording the lives of the champagne set in its moments of abandon. A harvest of his finer fruits was assembled by Publisher David Kemp last week and issued in book form with an introduction...
...made about $500,000 annually until 1930. Mr. Odlum differed from most of his Wall Street elders in that he made fortunes while they were losing them. He concluded that the logical person to run a swank women's specialty shop was a woman. His wife was no swankier than he (they live simply in suburban Forest Hills, prefer Utah to Europe for vacationing), but after she wrote a report for him on the basis of a month's inspection of the store, "Tenney" Odlum was installed as a special adviser. One of the first things...