Word: swankness
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...been founded in Chester, Pa. largely to build oil tankers. Under shrewd Pew management Sun Shipbuilding became one of the biggest of its kind; money rolled in. Joe Pew married a Philadelphia girl, Alberta Hensel, quietly joined social life along the Main Line, raised a healthy brood, settled in swank Ardmore...
Last week, before the American News paper Publishers Association at Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria, Bill Knudsen blew off a cloud of steam over the strained relations of big business and Government in the U. S., let go the biggest puff on the subject of big pay for industrialists. Excerpt...
After a luncheon at Washington's swank Shoreham Hotel was held a charity fashion show. Its principals and onlookers were socialites, debutantes, Congressional wives. Among the mannequins were two Senators' wives, Florida's Mrs. Claude Pepper, Kentucky's Mrs. "Happy" Chandler. Name of the show: Gilding the Lily for Glamorous Days and Nights...
...hundred yards up Memorial Drive, jammed in between a swank apartment house and the Boston Elevated stockyards, towers a neo-rom-anesque stucco structure, a bastard of medieval and modern simplicity. It is the retreat of the Cowley Fathers, black-robed brothers of the Order of St. John the Evangelist, who have come to seek heavenly peace on the fringe of the State's No. 2 industrial city. It is from here that the fathers set out on their nation-wide pilgrimages to preach the Episcopalian gospel; it is here that a good many world-weary sinners--ex-convicts, professors...
...under Jimmy's window. Jimmy wrote to the Minister of War: would the Imperial trumpet corps please practice elsewhere? Next day a young lieutenant called on Jimmy, clicked his heels, demanded the letter be withdrawn. When Jimmy refused, he was told to pack his bags, move from his swank apartment...