Word: swankly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Occupying a suite of rooms at London's swank Savoy Hotel for the past two months has been short, square-faced, blue-eyed Walter Nash. Once a bookseller in the English Midlands, he migrated to New Zealand 30 years ago. Last week he was back in the country of his birth representing his adopted country in a complicated and-for New Zealand-crucial financial deal...
...Angeles' swank Town House staged, at Warners' instigation, a dinner for 26 males who decided she had more "oomph"' than any girl in town. "Oomph," said Dudley Field Malone, "is a very beautiful thing that convention demands be clothed." Said Screenwriter Graham Baker: "Oomph is something in a girl which begets propositions not proposals, gets her chased instead of chaste." As the Oomph Girl, Cinemactress Sheridan was more photographed, talked about, gossip-columned than any recognized Hollywood star...
...recover a clothes bill from dapper Gangster Lawyer Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, who this week finishes a stay in The Bronx County jail for participating in the Dutch Schultz policy racket, swank Haberdasher Amos Sulka went to court. Some items: shirts at $18.25 (one day Customer Davis bought 16), handkerchiefs at $3, silk drawers* at $12.50, socks at $5.25 a pair, two "ladies' lounge suits" at $105 each...
...swank, fox-hunting Warrenton, Va., Washington Society Columnist Count Igor Cassini (grandson of the late Tsarist Ambassador to the U. S. Count Arthur Cassini) was lured from a country-club dance, tarred & feathered by five aristobrats. Arrested next day were Ian and Colin Montgomery, Alexander Calvert. Reported the Count: "I recognized Ian Montgomery and asked him, 'Why are you doing this to me?' He said I had written in my column that his mother was invited to the reception for the King and Queen of England and that his father had not been invited...
Confiscated by Manhattan agents of the Food and Drug Administration this week was a load of 30,000 aluminum-cased lipsticks, sent to the U. S. by the swank Parisian parfumerie, Guerlain, Inc. They charged: for coloring, the lipsticks contained cadmium and selenium, poisonous chemicals banned in U. S. cosmetics...