Word: swanking
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...Darling, it was absolutely chicsy," ecstatically exclaimed ballerina Tatiana Riabouchinska as she left the Advocate's swank party, held in honor of her and her colleagues, Tamara Touvanova and the glamorous, beautiful, and attractive Irina Baronova...
...into moth balls, were inducted into the Army, prepared to start a year's training at Fort Meade as the First Battalion 176th Infantry. In the next two weeks two more noted socialite units will be inducted: Philadelphia's First Troop City Cavalry and Manhattan's swank Seventh Regiment (207th Coast Artillery). Clad in regulation olive drab, they will be in camp by the end of the month...
Today Michael Todd lives at Chicago's swank Drake Hotel, is driven in a Cadillac by a liveried chauffeur, mangles the King's English, aspires to produce the delicate dramas of his good friend Hungarian Playwright Ferenc Molnar...
...Nelson Hume decided that this was unfair to Roman Catholic boys. In the hills of western Connecticut, not far from Hotchkiss and Kent, he started Canterbury School, where well-to-do Catholic boys, without neglecting their religious training, might prepare for Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Williams with the same swank as their Protestant contemporaries. Last week this Roman Catholic Groton celebrated the success of Nelson Hume's idea...
...boiled shirt swelling and falling over his Cyclopean chest, Jim Londos (real name: Christopher Theophilus), sometime airplane-spinning wrestling champ, made a debut at Philadelphia's swank Academy of Music with a lecture on wrestling as practiced by the ancients...