Word: swanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Katherine Dunham, rhythmic Negro choreographer (Tropical Revue), stepped high into Manhattan's swank East Seventies, bought a $200,000, 30-room mansion which she will turn into a dancing school. Neighbors in the same block: the Frick museum and a Vanderbilt town house...
Correspondents wondered why King Peter of Yugoslavia had been bouncing in & out of London's swank Claridge's. He was calling on his uncle-in-law, King George of Greece. In the royal Greek suite, the young King, whose people do not want him, and the old King, whose people do not want him either, discussed an urgent problem: how to keep their crowns from blowing off in the high wind of history...
Reynolds got into the Mexican trade when he took a vacation last August, after 14 successful years in Chicago, manufacturing printing presses. He rented a comfortable house from the swank Mexico City Country Club, planned a lazy year. The plan for rest went the American way after a few weeks: he met a Mexican businessman whose small factory was producing 50 lighters...
...swank Wolhurst Saddle Club, play-spot of Colorado's mining and cattle men, was raided last week. The invaders were a squad from the War Manpower Commission, who lined up all the employes for questioning, then ordered five-a cook, a watchman, and three attendants-to report to jobs in man-hungry war factories...
...conference room the second session grew so stormy that the Archbishop adjourned the meeting before blows were struck. From the spate of tempestuous talk emerged only one point of unanimity: Archbishop Damaskinos was acceptable to all parties as Regent. But George II of Greece, waiting in London's swank Claridge's, must not delay his consent...