Word: swankly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Manhattan, after a getaway from France with the help of Hollywood friends, cheerful Duchamp was comfortably installed in Patroness Peggy Guggenheim's swank apartment. Generalized he: "The artists of Paris are flourishing." He particularized...
Gerd von Rundstedt got his first military training in swank cadet schools, where stiff-backed officers and crop-headed noncoms broke young men and rebuilt them to the Army pattern. He was a captain and company commander when World War I began, went to the front with a crack infantry regiment. He distinguished himself. With his background and training he could not have done anything else. But he also showed a fine soldier's brain, and when the war ended he was chief of staff of an army corps, a higher leap than any other German general now fighting...
...swank, black Packard whispered over the mud-covered asphalt street, drew up at the new south wing of the District of Columbia's ancient red-brick jail. Out in the rain stepped greying Coroner Dr. A. Magruder McDonald. In the dim-lit vestibule a dozen reporters sat on death watch for the eight submarine-borne Nazi saboteurs. Some of them had waited more than 24 hours. The Coroner had nothing to say. But his mere presence told them their vigil would soon be over...
Index of this boom were the annual sales figures announced last week by Manhattan's largest (and newest) art dealer, Gimbel Brothers Department Store. Gimbels' sales-$5,255,000-more than doubled last year's. Fifty-Seventh Street's largest art auctioneers, swank Parke-Bernet Galleries,* ran second with $4,007,823.35, an increase of 10%. Smaller dealers reported similar increases. What share had been bought by refugees could not be positively figured, for Manhattan's art impresarios are as secretive about their clients as doctors about their patients. But most of them agreed that...
Washington society, despite the heat, had never had a gayer summer season. In swank Georgetown there were more garden parties than ever, and drawing rooms blazed every night until midnight-and after. Washington society was taking generous helpings of canapes and cocktails with its part of winning...