Word: swankest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three weeks ago, in Atlantic City, he gathered 60-odd youths and 20 maidens he had picked for his Youth Orchestra, started rehearsing them night & day, at $50 apiece a week. Atlantic City's Mayor Thomas D. Taggart Jr. gave them free lodgings at the city's swankest hotels. To season his unbaked orchestra, Stokowski added the merest pinch (18 men) of experienced Philadelphia Orchestra men, thus reducing its 100% U. S. content by about 1%. By the time he was through rehearsing he had fired a couple of woodwinds, had cajoled, scolded, flattered the rest into efficient...
Canada's Laurentians. less famed for downhill running than for cross-country touring, are fast becoming popular with U. S. skiers. Newest and swankest Laurentian rendezvous is Mont Tremblant, which celebrated its first birthday last month...
When Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera was put on a permanent basis in 1892, the Metropolitan Opera House was bought for $1,425,000 by 35 members of New York's swankest families. From them the Opera Company leased the building to produce its operas in. In payment for this lease the Company allowed its 35 landlords to occupy the 35 first-tier boxes of the Opera House (the "Diamond Horseshoe") at an annual assessment that reached a high last year...
...Guard Republican Congressman Chester Castle Bolton of Lyndhurst (suburban Cleveland), Ohio, son of the late, great Mark Hanna's business partner. Mr. Bolton's personal check for $125,000 assured Cleveland the 1936 Republican convention; his champagne reassured 500 Party bigwigs at the convention's swankest reception. Chester Bolton, popular though rich, died last October...