Word: swanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half the circuit-swank Southampton, suburban Rye, businesslike Forest Hills-will still be in the game. But the one player with top-flight memories for the gallery is likely to be 30-year-old veteran Sidney Wood. Two favorites for National Championship honors are the two-hander Francisco Segura of Ecuador and southpaw Seymour Greenberg, graduate of the public parks. At their best, none of these can touch the all-round brilliancy of Big Bill Tilden or Fred Perry, the pyrotechnic power of Ellsworth Vines, the high-gearing of Donald Budge. It will be a season of ghosts and neophytes...
Then there is the Swampscott trip, which is now a regular feature for 12 men in the unit each weekend. It involves such popular activities as swimming, dancing--and eating--at the swank Hotel Preston, and for free at that...
Spectators already familiar with Sargent were apt to turn to the swank, super-Gibsonesque drypoint portraits made by Helleu during the first two decades of the century. He is said to have done only four portraits of men-and the reason seemed obvious. Among his swan-necked beauties were the actress Liane de Pougy, Madame Helleu, Michael Strange, Mme. Louis Jacques Balsan (the former Duchess of Marlborough...
Many U.S. war plants have set up recreation centers for their employes. But the real California touch was applied last week by Rohr Aircraft Corp. (plane parts) at Chula Vista. For its 8,000-odd employes, Rohr took a five-year lease on the swank $250,000 San Diego Country Club, with 158 acres of golf, tennis, Softball, croquet, badminton, horseback-riding, picnicking and bar-rooming. To accommodate all three Rohr shifts, the club will operate 24 hours...
...Union of South Africa, home of 2.000,000 dominant whites, 7,000,000 blacks and 250,000 Indians, grappled last week with an ugly racial problem. In Durban, chief port and swank resort of Natal Province, prosperous Indian merchants and farmers (mostly descendants of laborers imported in the 19th Century) had bought $3,000,000 worth of property in the past two and a half years, had moved into new homes in the city's toniest suburbs...