Word: suite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kidnaping. Meanwhile the bandit leader had ordered Joseph Ruff and the Zahlers back into their car. "This is the man we want!" he said pointing to Mr. Rosenthal, who stood shivering in the rain, clad only in a thin summer suit...
Prince Regent Hirohito† has not only fostered the introduction of tennis into Japan but is an inveterate long distance horseback rider, and a swimmer of remarkable strength. During a recent swimming exhibition off the famed Isshiki Beach, Prince Hirohito donned a bathing suit, seized a rifle, and entering the water, proved his skill at the peculiar Japanese pastime of shooting at a target while treading water. Later he applauded enthusiastically a group of expert swimmers who donned ancient Samurai suits of metal armor and thus clad swam an exciting race. As everyone knows, the Prince of Wales and Prince...
Mary Miles Minter, onetime cinema actress: "When I was in the movies, my mother, Pearl Miles Reilly, better known as Charlotte Selby, controlled the money, before I became of age, and only last January I filed a suit demanding an accounting from her. And now my father, J. Homer Reilly, has also filed a suit asking for one-half of all the earnings I made while on the screen. I gave out no statement of the amount involved, but newspapermen last week placed it around...
...Suit, coop, raddiator, worshing, kewpon, kaif, pitcher, umberella, athaletic, fillum...
Thought U. S. purists, now is the time to elect a Proper Pronunciation Commission in this country, to persuade U. S. radiannouncers not to call a "suite" (of rooms or furniture) a "suit," a "coupe" (small closed car) a "coop," a "radiator" a "raddiator,"or radio"raddio" not to say "worshing" (a Pittsburghism) for "washing," "kewpon" for "coupon" "kaif" for "cafe," "pitcher" for "picture," "umbrella," "athaletic," 'fillum" and "I-ow'a" for their comparatively manageable originals...