Word: swanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes the Americans met and played tennis with upper-class Haitians at the swank Turgeau Club. And businessmen with a stake in Haitian foreign trade watched closely last week as President Dumarsais Estime dropped nationalist leaders from his Cabinet. But mostly the escapists lived far above and remote from the impoverished millions of the black republic. Their chief worry: that other Americans would come to Haiti, run up prices, put an end to paradise...
...Moscow is as strong as anywhere in Finland, which I found in extremely critical condition. The food situation is so bad that restaurants in small towns have only two items on the bill of fare: pea soup and boiled potatoes. Coffee and sugar are practically unheard of even in swank black-market restaurants. Clothing is made from wood pulp, liquor (schnapps) is distilled from wood alcohol, most automobiles are woodburning...
High Prices. The merchandiser who promulgated this piece of business iconoclasm is Eversharp President Martin L. Straus II, 50, who works as smoothly as a ball bearing in his new empire. (His office is in his apartment in Manhattan's swank St. Regis Hotel.) Things were not always thus. In 1929, as head of Chicago's Hartman Furniture & Carpet Co., he saw it go broke in the depression, learned that low prices alone were not enough to make people buy. In 1939 he teamed up with Ralph A. Bard (later Under Secretary of the Navy...
...swank Dorchester Hotel and Grosvenor House (which also housed the Arab delegates), Drs. Chaim Weizman and Nahum Goldman, of the Jewish Agency Executive, watchfully waited. Neville Laski, K.C. (Harold's brother) raced between conference and Whitehall with news of the latest developments...
London was engaged last week in a war of attrition with itself. Inside Abbey Lodge, the Duchess of Bedford apartments and other big blocks of swank lodgings were encamped hundreds of squatters who refused to come out. Squads of alert bobbies prevented food, clothing and reinforcements from going in. The Government had ordered water and electricity turned off. Lice, cold, dirt, lack of bedding and food reduced the squatters to a pale, disheveled, begrimed group...