Word: swanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working as a securities salesman from 9 to 5 in a Wall Street brokerage office was 38-year-old Archduke Franz Josef of Austria, who rumbled to work by subway from the swank Savoy-Plaza. He explained he just wanted something...
...Golf Association cut out a war pattern for golf clubs: let them combine golf with victory gardening by replacing part of the rough (not fairways or greens) with vegetable gardens. Westchesters swank Wykagyl Country Club went enthusiastically supererogatory, plowed up its first and second fairways and allotted a patch to each of 55 member families. Members plan to play nine holes each Sunday, spend the rest of the day gardening...
...Throughout the country, private preparatory schools, with relatively few women teachers, were generally hard hit. Examples : The Pawling School at Pawling, N.Y. closed its doors last spring. Hollywood's swank Black-Foxe Military Institute had a 50% faculty turnover...
Herman Mankiewicz is a moonfaced, top-flight Hollywood film writer. One night he was driving alone on Benedict Canyon Road in swank Beverly Hills. His car collided head-on with another driven by Leonora Gershwin, wife of Lyricist Ira Gershwin. Mrs. Gershwin and two women with her were hurt slightly. Scenarist Mankiewicz, unhurt, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, was later released on $500 bond pending a hearing. As news the accident was worth brief mention at most...
Dining at the swank Sutton Place apartment of Manhattan Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, Wendell Lewis Willkie jumped slightly every time Mrs. Mitchell spoke to the butler, finally got used to the fact that the butler's name was Wilkie...