Word: swankly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only swank night spot with anything like a full-sized show (Hotel St. Regis' gay, fast-moving ice frolic is the best brief show) is the lustrous Rainbow Room with its dazzling night view from the 6sth floor of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building. Suave, refined, pleasantly conventional, the show headlines Musicomedy-Find-of-The-Year Mary Martin, who sings My Heart Belongs to Daddy in Leave...
With the help of a maid, widowed Minta Martin keeps house for her son in Baltimore's swank Ambassador Apartments, just a short walk from the Second Presbyterian Church, of which she is an active member. Martin sometimes goes with her to church on Sundays, dodges it when he can. On evenings when they don't go to the movies he likes to sit at home, surrounded by massive furniture and by paintings of landscapes which Minta Martin has dashed off from time to time over the past 40 years. Two years ago Mrs. Martin stopped painting, doesn...
Engaged. Aerielle Frazer, 21, pretty Toledo heiress (Willys-Overland) and post-debutante (she was brought out in swank-stuffed Newport); and Michael Strutt, 24, second son of British Lord Belper...
...frilly fish in a bright aquarium. Occasion for these beautiful doings was the formal opening of the long-awaited, permanent home of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (since 1937 temporarily camped in offices and basement galleries of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center). In equal parts swank, sober and glamorous, the company (more than 6,000) included such varied personages as Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, ex-Premier Juan Negrin of Spain, Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. For them and for New York World's Fair visitors until October 1, the new Museum was decked out with a big, cream...
Beside the little Pawcatuck River, six miles back of where the Atlantic makes Watch Hill a swank summer resort, the lively 270-year-old town of Westerly, R. I. (pop.: 11,000) lies snug against most ordinary ocean blows. But the one that whistled in on the afternoon of last September 21 was no ordinary blow, it was the wildest in the memory of any New Englander. Having washed a good deal of Watch Hill away, it tossed garages and outbuildings into the air, snapped off church steeples, huffed houses down, crippled the power lines, blew in, among others...