Word: swanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Panama, there were low mutterings of "Qué horror!" (Outrageous!). From Havana, Trygve Lie cabled apologies. On his whirl through the Antilles and Central America, he had missed a banquet tossed for him by the Lions Club in Panama City's swank Union Club. Some 133 guests, including the entire diplomatic corps, the entire Panamanian Cabinet, the presidents of the National Assembly and Supreme Court, waited more than an hour before deciding that the U.N. Secretary-General had stood them up. Lie, reportedly annoyed when his official chauffeur got lost or mislaid, proceeded to Cuba. Panamanians were most piqued...
...Manhattan's swank Park Avenue Racquet & Tennis Club, the British racquets team met the U.S. in the first international racquets team match since 1930. The British relied on control, while the Americans concentrated on slugging the ball. Britain's doubles team of Cosmo Crawley and Jack Paule, never beaten, kept their record intact. Final score: Britain...
They had surrendered not only rank, but swank. Like all West Point fourth-classmen, they answered to titles like "Mister Dumbjohn" and endured upper-classmen's humor. But as soldiers, most wore their ribbons. They were the gaudiest plebes in the Academy's history. On his grey dress coat, Cadet Clark sported pilot's wings, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 13 clusters, and an ETO ribbon with six stars...
Last August, to curb blatant cigaret trading, Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay, then Deputy Military Governor, opened a legal barter center in Berlin's swank Dahlem district. Through one door, Americans swarmed with their cartons. Through another, Berliners brought their bric-a-brac, silver, china, cameras, radios, furs; the cigarets the Germans got in exchange bought food and clothing on Berlin's black market...
...Japan, too, the American-language craze had caught everybody from streetcar conductors, who crammed between corners, to the hat-check boy at the swank Dai Ichi Hotel, who couldn't keep his hats straight for studying an English grammar. In Tokyo a standard Oxford Dictionary would get you $33 last week, and two made-in-Japan, slang dictionaries that out-defined the Danish version had topped 40,000 copies apiece...