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After that bar we went to another swanker place on the other side of town.

Archive 2008-12-01 Sissie 2008

After that bar we went to another swanker place on the other side of town.

Day 6: Uzhorod,Ukraine: October 1st--My Birthday Sissie 2008

She became Gaby Wooldridge and then Gaby Lee, developing an ever-swanker supper-club act-feathers, slit dresses, dancing guys, the works, all orchestrated by her manager, Bob Russell, writer of such standards as "Don't Get Around Much Anymore."

You Gotta Pay Respect 2008

Naturally, when one has a pocketful of greenbacks--or yuan, as the case may be--one seeks swanker pleasures.

Faces Of The Week July 10-14, 2006Forbes Faces Of The Week July 10-14, 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006

Naturally, when one has a pocketful of greenbacks--or yuan, as the case may be--one seeks swanker pleasures.

Walsh's Diageo Cheered Up By Upscale China Sales 2006

_Ruth_ is a fine girl, with character and candour, those too rare assets, and having pursued, and found wanting, _Bert_, the swanker, who hasn't the courage for matrimony; the polite and fatuously prudent _Archie_, and

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 Various

He spends his money quickly, alas! that poor young swanker. '

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories 1928

I made a serious blunder when I asked one of them a question about Ypres, for I pronounced the name French fashion, which put me under suspicion as a "swanker."

Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army James Norman Hall 1919

'Atlantic Pork's a good name for a swanker,' he said.

The Magic World Gerald Spencer Pryse 1891

_Swankie_, or _swanker_, a tight strapping young fellow or girl.

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777