Word: suit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hidalgoans believe Creager's suit against Colliers an empty gesture; doubt its ever coming to trial; hope it will...
...floor he appears in a dark business suit and introduces a great many bills, usually minor in nature, for his constituents. When the constituents come to Washington he receives them cordially, and leads them proudly to the White House to meet President Hoover...
...George Akerson, presidential secretary, is held by many to be almost the "double" of his chief). Yet trickery of some sort might have been suspected one day last week when this amazing episode took place: The President was seen to leave his executive office, clad in his usual sack suit. The Japanese Ambassador, Katsuji Debuchi, was waiting in the Blue Room to present the officers of some visiting Japanese warboats. Precisely six minutes after the sack-suited President vanished, there appeared to handshake the Japanese a President neat and calm in full formal morning wear. Midshipmen from the Japanese warboats...
...York, N. Y., Sept. 30--Representatives of Dr. Huey, the Harvard CRIMSON's high-priced Chinese prophet, were served suit today by the Martini Company for breach of contract. The famous vermouth manufacturers charge that Dr. Huey had agreed to endorse their cocktail ingredient, but had broken his contract to endorse Angostura bitters, Sunkist oranges, Gordon water, and two tea-spoonfuls of sugar...
...need any clubs. It is merely informative. Presupposing no bid from the opponent on your left, your partner then must bid. If he has not two quick tricks, his bid must be one diamond, no matter how much length he has in any particular suit, and you may then declare your real strength. If he has two quick tricks, he is given the choice of bidding either a no-trump or his best suit. (If that suit be diamonds, he must bid two diamonds.) Obviously, the advantage of the Vanderbilt bid lies in the fact that the bidding is kept...