Word: swankiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Largest and swankiest spa in England is the venerable town of Bath, 107 miles from London. Bath's principal claims to fame are its Roman remains, its Georgian house-fronts, and its spring water. Gouty Britishers have drunk and dunked themselves in Bath's water since the time of the Roman Empire. Not so well known as Bath's baths, but no less remarkable, is Bath's Pump Room Orchestra, a small 18-man group, which is today the oldest established orchestra in the British Empire...
...like any other downtown dis trict in a large city- it has plenty of bar rooms, gambling houses and houses of assigna tion. But it also includes a dozen quite respectable hotels, the Glide Memorial Church (Southern Methodist), the B'nai Brith Hall, the very newest and swankiest dance-spot in the city (featuring people like Gene Krupa and Buddy Rogers), the headquarters of a large proportion of the city's labor unions, both A. F. of L. and C. I. O., and any number of decent and properly conducted restaurants and stores...
...brilliant, literary President Manuel Azana, statesman-reformer, there has been the anonymous life of a figurehead. This week he emerged to make a radio address. For more than a year, a Socialist physician, Dr. Juan Negrin, educated in Germany, a fluent linguist, frequenter of Madrid's swankiest cafés, has ruled Leftist Spain, his decrees being subject to periodic scrutiny by an obedient, peripatetic Cortes...
When she first went to Washington the Times was considered to "carry" the Herald, which was distinctly a backstairs paper. Now the positions have been reversed: the Herald's prestige and its acceptance in the swankiest Massachusetts Avenue homes sell advertisers in the Times. Mrs. Patterson intends to make the Times her own mouthpiece, dress it in new format, give it her best writers, many of them women, and her pet features. She is no political ax-grinder, either for or against the New Deal, though personally she leans more toward the liberalism of her brother, Joe, than toward...
...newspapers and in the local bureaus of agencies and out-of-town papers ; the women, some wives, some newspaper women but the majority lively young things who spend their days at typewriters or store counters, pretty as debutantes are not. They had the time of their lives in their swankiest $11.98 copies of Paris models, dancing in the President's parlor, strolling on the President's south lawn between strings of Japanese lanterns, congregating in the lobby around the table where tall glasses of cold beer were poured all evening long...