Word: tonier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rhodesmen draw full lieutenant's pay as well as the $2,100 annual Rhodes stipend. Attached to the U.S. embassy in London, they get cut-rate PX privileges. They can dress in well-groomed contrast to their colleagues; they can buy cars and hi-fi sets, live in tonier style than all but the richest bloods of wealthy Christ Church College. "You chaps," said an envious Briton, "are the heirs to Edwardian Oxford...
...Restaurant in Manhattan. At the brassy Arawak Hotel in Jamaica, the planned games included both generations. While the children put on free "calypso" shirts and went for a donkey ride, the parents bet on crabs that had been painted red or blue and goaded into a sidewise race. In tonier circles, no help from the management was needed. The cafe society crowd at Montego's Round Hill ($60 a day and up) howled as Guest Moss Hart played and sang his own off-color songs...
...African side, the captain quick-changes into dove-grey flannels and a snap-brim felt, darts to a waiting taxi and heads, by way of the flower shop, for a glassily sinful flat in one of the tonier hotels. There he is passionately greeted by wife No. 2, a sexy, black-haired baggage (Yvonne de Carlo) who throws the cootch around in nightclubs, guzzles champagne, and takes moonlight plunges in the Mediterranean...
Oldtime Cinema Soprano Jeanette (Naughty Marietta) MacDonald, after finishing up the concert season with recitals in some of the tonier Las Vegas gambling casinos, received an honorary Mus.D. degree from New York's Ithaca College for her "many contributions to the field of music...
...good old days, Tobacco Heir "Angie" Duke was the favorite of society columnists. At his Southampton estate, playfully known as the Duke Box, Hedy Lamarr and Jimmy Stewart used to rub bronzed elbows with Henry Ford II, and some of Manhattan's tonier artists went swimming with visiting English Tittes. But Angie (who worked his way up from private to major in World War II) started brooding about a career...