VIII When Major Joe Mauser entered the swank Agora Bar, the little afternoon dance band broke into a few bars of that tune which was beginning to pall on him.
His current fame, transient though it might be, would have made him welcome as a guest in the Upper Caste Club, located in the swank Baltimore section of town.
He had met the man a few months ago at Nadine's home in that swank section of Greater Washington once known as Baltimore.
I don't agree with you, for once," Miss Marlenspuyk replied.
The rector had taken his place at the desk in the chancel to read the appointed lesson, with its message of faith and love.
That his name was Swank she also knew; and she thought that perhaps she had heard about the marriage of a rich old man named Swank to a pretty young wife a year or two ago.
Mr. Swank made no answer, but he opened his eyes and looked at the woman who had come to nurse him.
He said good-night to Mr. Swank in the same cheering tone, and then he went to the door.
Mr. Swankhas influenza only, but his heart is weak, and he needs careful attention.
Larry said suddenly, “Look, promise like a good girl not to make us conspicuous and I’ll take you to the Swank Room for dinner tonight.
La Calvados was the swankiest French restaurant in Greater Washington, a city not devoid of swank restaurants.
They talked Imperials, Elcars, Cuttings, Speedwells, Marions, and the swank new Garfords with the single headlight.
Biggs, Mrs. Swank and others were the leading spirits.
We have yet to see any sensible man who attended the convention whose esteem for woman has been lowered, while very many have been converted by the captivating speeches of Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Swank and Mrs. Livermore.
In company with Mrs. Swank she presented a memorial, to the Legislature in 1871, asking the elective franchise for women, and made a very effective speech on the occasion.
For logical argument and beauty of style, Miss Swank was said to have few equals.
Mrs. Swank is one of the most pleasing speakers of Indiana.
And Bloom, of course, with his knockmedown cigar putting onswank with his lardy face.
As for Mr Reggy with his swank and his bit of money she could just chuck him aside as if he was so much filth and never again would she cast as much as a second thought on him and tear his silly postcard into a dozen pieces.
Playing cards, hobnobbing with flash toffs with a swank glass in their eye, adrinking fizz and he half smothered in writs and garnishee orders.
At muster for raid, or at market, he was there, swank man and pretty but for the lameness he had found on an ill day on Tom-an-dearc.
Leaning forward, lost in a dream, stood theswank lads of Aora.
So trouble stayed in the land of Gosh; And the futile Glugs could only gape, While the Lord High Swank still ruled King Splosh With laws of blither and rules of bosh, From out his lair of tape.
The stealthy cats that grace the mats Before the doors of Gosh, Smile wide with scorn each sunny morn; And, as they take their wash, A sly grimace o'erspreads each face As the Swank struts forth to court.
Then the East wind roars a loud guffaw, And the haughty Swank says, "Haw!
But the Lord High Swank skipped nimbly hence, And hid him safe behind the fence Of Regulation VI.
When the rivals showed up on the beach at the appointed time I regret to say that Swank was not himself.
Triplett in the van, then Whinney, Swank and myself, in the order named.
Two days after the Grand Banquet described in the last chapter, Whinney, Swank and I awoke with a sigh of simultaneous satisfaction, completely rested and restored.
A difficulty was that of preventing the artist from quitting work and joining his models which Swank always justified by saying that the greatest art resulted from submerging oneself with one's subject.
Swank replied with some heat that he didn't believe that anything could be said in Derby that hadn't been said already and Whinney was much more eloquent on the affirmative than he had been on the negative.
Swank was gradually covering his canvas by squeezing the paint directly from the tubes, a method which has since been copied by many others--the "Tubistes" so called.
A painting of Mrs. Swank by her husband has recently been purchased by the Corcoran Art Gallery of Washington, D.
Swank and I had heartily agreed with him, and it was in that despondent spirit that we had begun our Fourth of July celebration.
Swank next tried pantomime, using the French gesture for beauty, a circular motion of the hands about his face accompanied by sickening smiles.
Swank and I were spending the afternoon with Triplett on board the Kawa where the captain was explaining the workings of various home-made navigating instruments which he had manufactured.
Whinney and I were surprised to find that the islanders took Swank more seriously than they did either of us.
You’re great fellows for political swank and eye–wash, but you haven’t the brains of a hen.
Pom–Pom was, on the whole, very popular with the troops, and they did love to swank to the tune of ‘The British Grenadiers.
So off we went again down Stinking Sap; and I could see that Hankin and Green, the scout, bore themselves as victors, with something of the swank of the old campaigner and hero of a thousand patrols.
Our men were bursting with swank over the Company's being chosen to act as covering party; delighted to think that what they regarded as the combatant side of the show was theirs.
He had eaten various food in various swank restaurants.
He'd gone into Tiffany's and into some of the other swank shops.
Into the dressing room of the Roxie, into the bars of swank private clubs, into the offices of the F.
It's probably been a life's ambition of his to eat in an ultra-swank restaurant and then walk out without paying.
