Word: suite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...events of an American track meet there were tournaments in volley ball, tennis, basketball, soccer and a cross-country run. The student, instead of being the old long-coated dignified and often tubercular scholar, stood revealed as the alert, energetic, quick and strong youth in his trim looking track suit, who had learned all the lessons of self-control, self-discipline and team play which China needs so much today. The four hundred odd entries from some twenty-five schools experienced the need for adequate training and the exertion of every ounce of strength if they were to win--another...
...sounds as mournful as a sixth class French funeral, doesn't it? But, strangely enough, it isn't. Even shorn of actual speech Abe and Mawruss remain uproariously funny - the same vulgar, unctuous incredible immortals they were when they first sprang twin-Minervas of the cloak-and-suit trade from the brain of Montague Glass. The plot more or less follows the outline of the first Potash and Perlmutter play. Rosie is there-and Feldman the unscrupulous lawyer-and Irma Potash's love affair with Boris Anndrieff. Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr score heavily as the irresistible...
This move had the effect of calling Mussolini's bluff on Italian pretensions. Instead of resorting to war he followed Yugo-Slavia's suit in filing the Italian copy of the Rapallo and Santa Margherita documents with the League. He then made a new offer to Yugo-Slavia, the terms of which were not published. It is understood, however, that for the present both parties will neither invite nor accept outside arbitration of their differences, but if they are eventually unable to reach an agreement the entire Fiume question may be placed before the Permanent Court of International Justice...
While their operas, their comedies, their pantomimes are progressing on the tiny stage, voices behind the scenes suit words (in English) to the action of the drama. The sum of all their efforts is a trifle better than any puppet troupe exhibited latterly in this country...
Died. George Joseph Demotte, Manhattan and Paris antiquarian, art dealer, near Chaumont-sur-Tharonne, France. Returned from hunting, he was killed by the accidental discharge of a friend's rifle. Last Spring, he brought suit for libel against Sir Joseph Duveen, English art dealer, alleging that the latter stated that an enameled Virgin and Child had not, as Demotte represented, belonged to Queen Isabella the Catholic, of Spain. The case is now pending in the U. S. courts. In the French courts is also pending his suit for breach of confidence against M. Jean Vigoroux, French antiquarian, his former...