Word: swanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to the Ambassadorship, there is a multi-million-dollar project for Schine's swank Boca Raton Club near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Geddes, who regards the earth as well as buildings on it as fair game for rearranging, has started bulldozers reshaping the land around Boca Raton. Objective: a gently rolling, foursquare-mile plateau with just about the highest elevation (16 ft.) in the area. On it will be built a community of de luxe "cottages" that will sell at from, $20,000 to $50,000 apiece...
Denis Compton is a British cricketer and a friend of Freddie's. But in the atlas of British sports-South African edition, at least-cricket and pugilism are as far removed as Capetown and Lord's, home pitch of London's swank Marylebone Cricket Club. Last week, as Freddie fought his fight in Johannesburg, Denis-in Capetown to play with the M.C.C. team against South Africa's Western Province Cricket Club-invited him to drop in at Newland's Cricket Pavilion...
...fringed, bumpy bald head, and shrewd appraising eyes, he looks like a country doctor. At the end of his 17-hour day his cheeks are sunken and he puffs a little as he climbs to the attic bedroom of his stately 22-room Georgian house in Richmond's swank Hampton Gardens. But Freeman has no intention of dropping any of his fulltime jobs. For 33 years he has been editor of the Richmond News Leader, of which he is also a "substantial" stockholder.* And for 23 years Freeman has been a daily news broadcaster. When he finds time...
Greek at Twelve. At swank St. Mark's School in Massachusetts, cherubic Edward John Trevor Davies found his U.S. schoolmates deficient in languages ("Everybody was surprised that I had studied Greek when I was twelve"), English grammar ("The average boy could not express himself on paper"), and European history ("Only 10% knew the number of the monarch of Great Britain...
...least of many changes. This week the newlyweds will settle down, after their fashion. They will spend half of each week in the Waldorf Towers in Manhattan, where Bill Hearst publishes his father's Journal-American and the American Weekly, and the other half in a house on swank Decatur Place in Washington, where Bootsie will pursue her career...