Word: suite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexico. Republicans renominated Governor Richard C. ("Honest Dick") Dillon, famed in his last campaign for his 22-word campaign speeches, and objections to wearing a dress suit at his inaugural ball. Governor Dillon said he might cut his campaign speeches this year to eleven words. His opponent: Democrat Bob Dow. cowboy Attorney-General...
This year, Tilden, suspended from amateur play for writing signed articles, attended the matches in a grey suit after he had left the vaudeville theatre where he was doing a turn. Henri Cochet was picked to win and would have been even if Tilden had been playing. Nevertheless, the tournament was a series of upsets...
Therefore a Berlin taxi driver brought suit, last week, against a stingy "Polish" businessman who refused to give him more than 50 marks ($11.90), when the honest chauffeur found and restored $37,000 in unregistered, negotiable securities. The reward now legally demanded is 16,000 marks...
...another thing, Wilhelm of Doorn learned, last week, that Emil Ludwig's savage best-seller Wilhelm Hohenzollern, The Last of the Kaisers (TIME, March 21, 1927) is being dramatized for simultaneous production in Manhattan and Berlin this winter. Last winter Berlin courts sustained a suit for injunction against Communist Producer Edwin Piscator (TIME, Dec. 26), which was brought by Wilhelm of Doorn to compel censorship of a stage "Kaiser" from whose mouth came drooling and silly words, punctuated by posturings...
...speech is that it began with gestures: "Primitive man would sing, grunt or roar to express emotions just as the animals did. He would pantomime with his face and limbs to express his ideas to his fellows, and as he pantomimed with his hands his tongue would follow suit.* But as he came to occupy his hands more and more in his crafts he would have to rely more on gestures of the face, tongue and lips. Then it would come about that pantomime action would be recognized by sound as well as sight. Speech was thus born...