Word: swanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once the designer for Los Angeles' swank Bullock's-Wilshire store, Irene, who is married to Hollywood Writer Eliot Gibbons (brother of MGM's art director, Cedric Gibbons) went to M-G-M in 1942, where she heads a staff of more than 200. She will now cut down her M-G-M designing to eight or ten major pictures a year, delegate the rest to her assistants. MGM, anticipating profitable publicity tie-ins from the department stores, is entirely happy about the setup...
...somewhat. All the time Roosevelt had been out looking at planes, Hughes's Meyer had been at Elliott's elbow, pouring on the treatment. The night that the final Roosevelt recommendation went to Washington, Johnny had treated Elliott to the tune of $106.50 at Manhattan's swank night clubs...
...short-time visitor, the "controls" seem to be working well. The leading illustration is in restaurant prices. where top price of five shillings has been put on meals--that's one dollar, and it stands even in the best restaurants. In some of the swank places (based on pre-war prices) a "house charge" of a few shillings is allowed also, but in general one can get a solid three-course meal (although usually chicken or fish) for a dollar. In addition, the government has established special low-price restaurants in poor areas. Housing, on the other hand, is retarded...
...Take Them with You. The last day of the visit had been set aside, at the President's specific request, for whatever he wanted to do. It turned out to be a 45-mile drive downriver to the swank Seigniory Club, where he had lunch and held a greensward press conference. Perhaps his speech the day before had seemed too obviously aimed at Russia. So he broadened the appeal: the U.S. wants friendship with every nation, he said, emphasizing the word every...
...women's pages, signed columns and display ads it offers all things to all people. It is the housewife's guide, the politician's breakfast food, a bible to hundreds of small-town editorial writers. A classless paper, it is read on the commuter trains from swank Lake Forest, and on the dirty "El" cars taking workers to the stockyards. (The Colonel once banned foreign titles from his pages, still insists on simplified spelling, i.e., "frate" for freight...