Word: suit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with $40,000 of his savings, planned to play with the minor-leaguers himself. Because Boston was loath to lose him, Eddie Shore agreed to play with the Bruins once a week (at $200 a game), manage the Indians the rest of the time, put off donning his Indian suit until next year...
...been arrested on a charge of second-degree burglary for breaking into a neighbor's home, making off with two caged birds and a radio, which he said were really his. (Case was dismissed.) He had gone to Reno, hoping to persuade Mrs. Knight to drop her suit, "succeeded only in creating a rumpus," according to the New York Daily Mirror...
When low tide kept his pilot boat from landing at Tulum, Quintana Roo, impulsive Mexican President Lázaro Cÿrdenas, anxious to get on with his job, pulled on his bathing suit and plunged overboard, swam ashore, followed by 60 cursing members of the Presidential party...
...However, Suit's license to marry Barbara Bossinger of Little Rock, Arkansas was obtained yesterday from the Cambridge City Hall...
...course, the fact that the suits against him total over $100,000 would have nothing to do with it--or the suit that would probably have forced him to live up to his contract with another recording firm. His recent polemics against the people he plays for and the natural public protest are obviously factors of no importance. And the item that one of the movie journals printed recently to the effect that Shaw was one of the most unpopular men in Hollywood because of his absolutely impossible arrogance and his hypercriticality is of no consequence...