Word: suit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major Los Angeles theatres, and Autry is seldom recognized on the rare occasions when he appears in public. Irritated by his obscurity, the cinema's most popular star draws attention to himself by wearing cowboy clothes off screen as well as on, has a special white gabardine cowboy suit for evening wear. He takes off his cowboy suits only for bed or golf, owns no conventional clothes. Gene Autry's real name is Gene Autry. His next picture, due in about a month, will be Western Jamboree...
...death! He sat up behind his big desk and put every person instantly at ease. He answered questions good-naturedly and quickly-I wonder if there's a question in the world that would make him 'hem and haw.' . . He had on a dark blue suit with a very faint stripe, a white shirt and a dark blue tie with a small oval figure...
Other publishers did not follow suit. Said David Smart of Esquire, Ken and Coronet: "We're cooperating 100%." Similar reassurance came from the Crowell group (Collier's, American Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, Country Home), TIME Inc., Forum and Scribner...
...cities bought West Tennessee Power & Light Co.'s distributing facilities; 3) in Collier's, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes predicted the doom of privately owned utilities if they continued their "blind and headstrong course"; 4) the Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., accusing that big holding company of "conspiring to monopolize" the natural gas industry in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and West Virginia...
...Building about nine, Weaver lopes down the long corridor with a mess of manila folders under his arm, a cigaret stub in his nervous mouth. To preserve his more-or-less professorial role in a high-pressure company, he dresses with studied informality-slouch hat, tweedy, sloppy suit. He is short, bowlegged, has Clark Gable ears and hair cropped short because it tends to be kinky...