Word: swankness
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...Adolf Hitler entertained at Berchtesgaden the then President of the Assembly of the League of Nations. That gentleman, the swank-loving, multimillionaire Aga Khan, was impressed. After Munich he wrote to the London Times predicting there would be no war. When the Blitzkrieg struck Flanders the Aga Khan and his beauteous Begum (rated No. 5 among the ten best-dressed women in the world) fled from a French spa, not to Britain but to Switzerland. In Geneva last week the Aga Khan was no longer able to get money transferred from his bank accounts in London, Bombay and Cairo...
While delegates to the N. A. B. convention in San Francisco shrilly belabored ASCAP last week (see above), a lumbering, thick-maned Mexican, ensconced in a room in the swank Mark Hopkins Hotel, was trying to persuade U. S. broadcasters to help clear up the confusion of wave lengths between Mexico and the U. S. Although his presence at the convention went almost unnoticed, the Mexican was one of the most important figures in Mexican radio. His name: Emilio Azcarraga. His title: President of the Mexican Broadcasting Association...
Four years ago Manhattan's swank Saks Fifth Avenue department store decided to make the minor art of window dressing more arty. Taking a cue from the Museum of Modern Art's highly successful Van Gogh exhibition, Saks hung its windows with splashy Van Gogh reproductions, surrounded them with splashy garments. The idea spread until Fifth Avenue began to look like a huge, outdoor art museum...
...playground superintendents the Windsors are well experienced, will find the routine of Nassau reassuringly similar to that of the Riviera. To the swank Jungle Club go top-flight visiting Nassau socialites to dine, to the equally swank Bahamian Club for dancing or gambling. On nearby Hog Island are the tennis courts and swimming pools of the exclusive Porcupine Club. Below green-shuttered Government House are the warm waters of Nassau harbor, crowded with sleek yachts and fishing launches. Two hours flight away is the Florida coast and its U.S. winter resorts. The cartoonists of the U. S. press were quick...
Born. To Janet Gaynor, pert, auburn-haired cinemactress, and Gilbert Adrian, swank fashion designer: their first child, a son. Weight: 7 Ib. 4 oz. Name: Robbin Gaynor...