Word: suite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mysterious Stranger. During the naval proceedings last week, a strange man, carrying a small brown bag, slipped past the doorkeeper with an air so secretive that the suspicions of an alert Swiss detective were at once aroused. The stranger, grey-haired, straggly mustached, clad in an undistinguished business suit, pattered the length of several corridors, set his bag down, mopped his face. The Swiss detective, with catlike caution, flattened himself against the wall, watched the stranger closely for signs that his bag contained a bomb. Just then a member of the U. S. delegation appeared, shook warmly the hand...
Because wages constitute three-fifths of the cost of producing films, General Manager Richard A. Rowland of First National Pictures Corp. said last week that his company also would reduce wages to a degree as then not determined. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 13 other companies are expected to follow suit. Altogether, these producers will save very near to $10,000,000 a year on their payrolls...
...Apparently Mr. Coolidge did not know and was not informed about these things. . . . Anyhow, he is the first President to review the American Navy in a yachting cap and a business suit-but that is what he wore. Also he is the first President who left the bridge after 20 minutes of the review and, retiring to the stern of his boat, there had his picture taken and reclined for the rest of the two hours on a couch from which he could neither see nor be seen by the battleships as they passed the Mayflower. . . . Naval circles in Washington...
Having finished his speech, the Vice President attended a luncheon, then changed to a brown checked tweed suit and grey fedora hat, watched a ball game in which the Boston Nationals defeated the world's champion St. Louis Nationals...
...moment of judging came they "gave the little boy a hand." Florence, stamping her small right foot for quiet, awarded to His Royal Highness the first prize, held it aloft before the crowd, explained in mock Negro dialect: "Dis y'ere fust prize am an ostrich feddah suit o' cat's pajamas...