Thomas George Devey
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Thomas George Devey
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Virginia Boaz
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04/29/2018
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AncientFaces
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05/07/2018
Thomas proved that our ancestors did mug in front of the camera - but this is a postcard photo so the person who wrote on the back yells at him for "swanking"?
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" : arrogance or ostentation of dress or manner : pretentiousness, swagger
2 : elegance, fashionableness
Examples of swank in a Sentence
service that is the essence of swank: the waiters pull out your chair for you and even place your napkin on your lap
First Known Use of swank
circa 1854
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2 : elegance, fashionableness
Examples of swank in a Sentence
service that is the essence of swank: the waiters pull out your chair for you and even place your napkin on your lap
First Known Use of swank
circa 1854
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Ree Young
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05/07/2018
Glad he had some fun with the photo. His life was short. Thomas didn't make it home from WWI. He was buried in 1916 in France. So many lost.
Alyssa McIntosh The classic pose of “whatcha gonna do about it?” Some girls would woo that look. Ya know what I’m sayin’ 😏. Posing like he don’t give a c***, this dude is gangsta. 😎🤣
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