Word: swanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only well but with an iron hand. In the late '30s, Ward's became famous in the business world for the number of top executives who left because of violent disagreement with "the Old Man." (Some of them: Walter Hoving, now president of Manhattan's swank Lord & Taylor; Brigadier General Albert J. Browning, now a top man in Lieut. General Somervell's A.S.F. ; Raymond H. Fogler, now president of W. T. Grant Co.) By turns a kindly and domineering man, Sewell Avery once said: "If anybody ventures to differ with me, of course, I throw them...
Ever since Morgan Partner Edward T. Stotesbury died in 1938, Whitemarsh Hall, his 145-room country house, north of Philadelphia's swank suburban Chestnut Hill, had stood empty and unlived in. In the winter of 1942 it became a place of mystery. Passers-by reported strange doings. Around the vast, Versailles-inspired mansion a high steel fence went up. By day armed guards patrolled the herbaceous borders. By night great floodlights on the parapets sometimes flashed on to light up Whitemarsh Hall's massive, two-story limestone facade and Ionic columns...
Last week Mrs. Zorah White Gristede, slim, attractive wife of an executive of the swank Gristede grocery chain, wrote the Commissioner a letter: "Concerning the children's 'playground' at Eighty-Fifth Street and Fifth Avenue-it's filthy, in truth more 'pen' than park and fit only for use of pigs. . . . Having seen the scrupulously clean parks of other nations of the world, maintained at a fraction of the cost of ours, I say with authority that Central Park, in toto, is a disgrace...
...Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel last week, the ceremonious bestowal was made by Soviet Ambassador Andrei A. Gromyko to Secretary Hull, since all the heroes were still away on war business. Ambassador Gromyko, beaming and affable, could not forbear pointing out once more that "my country still carries the main burden of military efforts and sacrifices." He sugared this pill by prophesying that Russia's allies would have a large share in the final victory...
...noon the news had reached Oklahoma City, 35 miles north. In front of the 33-story First National Bank building, Bill Brannan spread it as he hawked his papers to the leasehounds who make their fairweather "offices" around his newsstand. Atop the building, in the swank Beacon Club, the talk of better heeled oilmen was the same: "Carter brings in new pool . . . she's bubbling out of the hole right now." For the Cottingham mud had tested 50% good crude, 50% mud and drilling water-no salt. By week's end the new well flowed at the rate...