Word: swanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of London's war annoyances had vanished. There was no longer a rush on restaurants: too much glass about. At the swank ones the well-heeled Londoner or American no longer needed a day-ahead reservation. If it was glass-fronted, tables were begging for diners...
Mexico's famed muralist Diego Rivera, who recently decorated the walls of Mexico City's swank Ciro's nightclub with luscious, careless, postcardish nudes, stayed away from the Picasso opening. But he had an anti-Picasso blast ready for the first reporter who came his way. Roared he: "The Society's role is clear: to serve those trying to preserve European cultural . . . domination. . . . Behind this show are dealers. . . . This is proved by the fact that [the Society's] activities were begun with a non-American artist of overwhelming prestige...
...teens Peter slaved in a steelworks. When World War I started he tried to get into a swank cadet school, was rejected when his father turned out to be an enemy alien (British). Embittered Peter set himself to learn the tricks of wartime Vienna's black market. By war's end he was leading a flourishing double life-as a respectable clerk in the steelworks anda gambler in foreign-currency exchange. The world, he reflects as the story ends, had challenged him to survive...
...dresses with full-length zippers are snatched out of the hands of delivery men. The Woman's Society of Winnetka's Congregational Church cleared $7,400 in a one-day sale, with more than 5,000 people scrabbling for old lamps, jewelry, and clothes hangers. In swank Lake Forest, upper-crust ladies clamor for silk evening gowns that can be converted to nightgowns...
...Called a world monetary conference for July 1 at swank Bretton Woods, in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Invited: all of the United Nations except Bolivia...