Word: swanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three, Diego Rivera, now 58, contributed a modest, cleverly patterned water color entitled Indian Mother and Children. Last year he climbed down from his mural scaffoldings to paint sexy nudes for Mexico City's swank nightclub, Giro's. Now he is doing a vast historical mural for Mexico's National Palace. Siqueiros, in the most traditionally political painting displayed, showed a mountainous Indian girl clasping a field of oil wells to her bosom. Patriotically entitled Sunrise of Mexico, it has already been snapped up by International Business Machines Corp...
Beggars is a tale of two racketeers. Back in Prohibition days Frankie Madison (Paul Kelly) had taken the rap and gone up the river for 14 years. His partner (Luther Adler) has grown rich and respectable, with the help of Frankie's dough, operating a swank supper club. Frankie, getting out of stir, thinks the partnership still exists. When he sniffs the truth, he thinks it is still 1930-that the tough guy who took the rap is more than a match for the smoothie who took his dough. But the tough guy hasn't a chance...
Close to the peak of Old Screamer Mountain, looking out over the foothills of Georgia's Blue Ridge, sits Laurel Falls, a swank camp-school for girls. There for more than 20 years magnetic, pompadoured Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith has taught a special kind of school. Some 60 well-to-do kids (including, last year, Golfer Robert Tyre Jones's daughters Clara and Ellen) are given, among other things, the facts of life according to the latest precepts of progressive education...
...England portraits and brown landscapes for the residents of staid Beacon Hill, he made modern art-a much less salable commodity in Boston-his side line. This week, in a redbrick, 78-year-old Back Bay mansion, right next door to the stuffy Guild of Boston Artists on swank Newbury Street, he opened an art gallery with an exhibition of 53 paintings by a Guatemalan Indian, Carlos Mérida...
...misrepresented her debts and had failed to tell him before the marriage that she needed an expensive operation, and now he wanted an annulment. Gloria argued Wall Streeter Davey's ability to pay: he kept a $100,000-a-year yacht-and one night, she said, when the swank St. Regis Hotel lacked butter for crêpes suzettes he had a half-pound of it brought from home ("War or no war . . . when William Davey wanted crêpes suzette he was going to get them...