Word: suite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...itself into a de luxe sightseeing tour of Europe. To many it will be an opportunity of visiting the Europe which, to them, is bounded by the boulevards of Paris, Monte Carlo and its gambling hells, Deauville and San Remo; and if they can see a one-piece bathing suit, they will have achieved the summit of European travel. . . . Every mail brings me seductive circulars...
...Washington, a fortnight ago, the District of Columbia Supreme Court granted the petition of David H. Blair, internal revenue collector, to dismiss a suit for injunction against him brought by one Gorham Hubbard, Boston taxpayer, to prevent the publication of the figure of his (Hubbard's) income...
...returning from sojourn abroad; Julius Fleischmann, the yeast millionaire, turned racehorse breeder in his postmarital retirement; two baseball teams, the White Sox and the Giants, homing from winter play abroad; Charalambous Simopoulos, the new Greek Ambassador to the U. S., and his Secretary C. Diamantopoulos; a Manhattan cloak and suit dealer with two diamonds set in his teeth; and many souls humbler, but equally divine, from steerage to first cabin...
...Evening Clothes. When a good idea falls to pieces like a human character suddenly crumbling, the spectacle is decidedly distressing. Such was the fate of a good idea in Henry Miller's production. In the first act, the bailiff gave the impecunious count only one suit from all his belongings. He chose his evening clothes and set out to find his fate. Of all the amusing whirligigs of drama that might have come tumbling out of this conception, few were employed...
...song may be altered to suit the opponent. "Tiger" may be substituted for "Bulldog" when playing Princeton: "Brown Bear" when Harvard opposes Brown: or "Indian" when Dartmouth is the opponent...