Word: tonier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spotlighted a building and improvement program on which it has spent $25,574,000 in the last two years. When the job is done, Woolworth's will have transformed itself completely into a medium-price variety chain. The company has already copied many merchandising frills from its tonier competitors. The Houston store will make free deliveries of purchases over $5 and, like some other Woolworth stores, it has a "layaway" plan-a kind of charge account in reverse-under which a customer makes a down payment on a piece of merchandise, pays regular installments, but does...
...piano, a soggy sax, a toneless trumpet, a cooing clarinet and a bass. The feature acts, a good old square dance and the numbers the boys in the band clowned up in trick hats and phony mustaches, were strictly corny. But last week, while many another U.S. nightclub with tonier entertainment was as empty as the inside of a kettledrum, Chicago's old standby, the Blackhawk Restaurant, couldn't find room for all the customers who wanted it straight...
Erika von Blomberg, 35, whose marriage to the late Nazi War Minister Werner von Blomberg got him fired in 1938 (he met her in one of Berlin's tonier brothels), announced happily that she had lately got a number of marriage proposals by mail. She didn't say what her answers had been...
...Queen Elizabeth's crossing time of four days, 16 hours, 18 minutes, was unspectacular, but her champagne luxury was something to cable home about. Her passengers were amazed by what they could eat, drink and buy in the shops. In the mammoth dining saloon amidships or in the tonier Verandah Grill on the afterdeck, first-class passengers ate sirloin steaks, Timbale de Volaille Périgord, pineapple souffle, coupe Jacques...
Sunday is racing day in Santiago, and no fooling. Winter & summer, wet or dry, thousands pile out to the plebeian Hipódromo in the morning, and, pausing only for a sandwich, migrate across town to bet away the afternoon at the slightly tonier Hipico. Earlier in the present Chilean winter, when lack of rainfall slowed hydroelectric plants and forced the capital to go on daylight saving time, fans sat stoically through the 8 a.m. race in utter darkness (newspapers suggested that the ponies carry lanterns...