Word: swanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Maximilian Agassiz, 77, swank grandson of the famed 19th-Century naturalist Louis Agassiz and president of both Newport's Reading Room (stag) and Clambake Club (coed); after a ten-year illness; in Newport, R.I. His father, Harvard Savant Alexander Agassiz, helped develop Calumet & Hecla copper mines, left him a fortune out of which he paid many a newsboy's way through college...
About a month ago, Sumner Welles wrote a few South American friends that he had resigned as Under Secretary of State, took a train for swank Bar Harbor. But Welles's resignation has not yet been announced: no successor has been named...
Next day Sumner Welles slipped out of Washington, turned up at Maine's swank Bar Harbor, where he held to diplomatically correct silence. If Sumner Welles was going into limbo, he would meet it with the good form a son of Groton and Harvard is expected to show...
...hubbub caused by Welles's resignation was added a hubbub of speculation over his possible successor. The candidate reportedly favored by Cordell Hull-onetime Ambassador-to-Italy Breckinridge Long - was certain to meet bitter opposition from those who think democratic aspirations are important. For Breckin ridge Long, whose swank parties were attended by the fanciest members of Ital ian society, has won no distinction by his opposition to Fascism. Other candidates for Sumner Welles's vacated job are Career-Diplomat George S. Messersmith, onetime Minister to Austria...
...behind this military rug cutting was Captain Glenn Miller, late recruit from the swank hotel ballrooms and broadcasting studios. Embarking on an earnest crusade to put swing on the U.S. parade ground, Captain Miller first taught his boys to swing the military classics. Then he militarized a few items like St. Louis Blues and the Jersey Bounce. Finally he got the urge to touch up some of the late great John Philip Sousa's scores with hot licks and modern dance-hall harmonies...