Word: suite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R. Last week it appeared likewise that John W. Davis, onetime Ambassador to the court of St. James's, onetime Democratic candidate for President, is acting as attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (TIME, July 6, MUSIC), defendant in a breach of promise suit for $1,000,000 started by Evan Burrows Fontaine, famed cabaret dancer...
...Dawes, having filled their engagement at Denver, went to Cheyenne (scene of the recent Teapot Dome oil suit) and took part in many astounding events: Mr. Dawes acted as director pro tern, in the filming of a Western picture, The Pony Express (James Cruze and Betty Compson). He reviewed a Frontier Days parade, was made a member of a Sioux tribe, abandoning his regular pipe for one two feet long with eagle feathers, was christened "Great White Father No. 2" (at the same function, Governess Ross was made "Princess Nellie Taylor"). He entertained a banjo-accordion-saxophone-violin orchestra...
...immodest for a young girl to appear in public in a one-piece bathing suit...
...public opinion), there sat with Lawyer Darrow and Teacher Scopes in the courtroom only plump, foppish Lawyer Malone of Manhattan and Judge Neal of Knoxville, Tenn. Fumbling his soiled lavender galluses, slowly masticating a quid of tobacco, Darrow squinted across at Lawyer Bryan, rather voluptuous in a black mohair suit, surrounded by assistant counsel...
...General" Ben McKenzie, local wit and humorist, dressed in a blue seersucker suit, peered down his nose and through his glasses perched thereon and in a high, rasping, querulous voice began the fight. The Court seemed in considerable doubt as to what he was driving at. But when he sneered at the laws in the "great metropolitan City of New York" and in "the great white city of the Northwest," Lawyer Malone said: "We object. ... I do not consider further allusion to the geographical parts of the country as particularly necessary. . . . We are here rightfully as American citizens...