Word: suite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elephant; mammal or fish? President Coolidge said he did not know and when John Ringling, who was in Washington with his circus, called at the White House and said his sea elephant weighed four tons. President Coolidge went to see for himself. Mrs. Coolidge, in summery white hat, suit and gloves, went too. They took seven-year-old Suzanne Boone and her parents. (Dr. Joel T. Boone is White House physician.) With Mr. Ringling by their side they saw the land elephants and lots of other creatures. President Coolidge shook hands with plump little Lilian Leitzel, the show...
...tried to talk down their earlier talk of acclaiming Candidate Smith on the first ballot at Houston. It would look just as much like party harmony and less like a Smith stampede, they reasoned, if Favorite Sons should receive complimentary votes for perhaps two ballots. The third ballot would suit the Smith men. That would contrast patly with 1924, when John W. Davis was nominated on the hundred-and-third...
Fine touches like this lift the rest of the company into proper importance. Peggy Wood Plays Portia with a humor--in the Elizabethan sense--that erases the memory of wooden Shakespearean heroines. And she is not Junoesque. Bassanio's suit was somehow less plausible for the youth of his friend Antonio; the lines of both were carefully read. Shock-headed and slant-eyed Rummey Brent gave nonchalance to Launcelot Gobbo, and little more can be done with...
...dollar bill was discovered tucked away in the pocket of an old tuxedo, and though those in charge have been striving tirelessly to discover the owner and have found any number of candidates, they can find no one able to identify the bill definitely. A brand new suit was unearthed from the pile, but before it could be spirited away by an aspiring colector, a student, showing sings of much gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair, burst into the building and carried off the garment in triumph...
Sebastian Spering Kresge (5 & 10 cent stores), giver of gold to the Anti-Saloon League, testified in his counter divorce suit against Mrs. Kresge that she offered to bear him a child if he would pay her $10,000,000. "At that time [April, 1925]," complained Mr. Kresge, "she took a Bible* in her hand, shook it in my face and said: 'I swear to God if you don't do what I want there will be the biggest exposé-the biggest scandal you ever heard of.' " Mr. Kresge did not give...