Word: suite
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Capote is about the size of Napoleon, only thinner. He was wrapped in an off-white, chart-paper tweed suit, with a striped shirt and a black bow tie slightly askew. He looks like a blond Mr. Peepers and talks like a Fleet Street 14-year-old whose voice is about to change. He manages, however, to live down both impressions...
...although no longer up to striking the daily "blow for liberty"-as a concession to the years, he manfully abandoned bourbon and stogies six weeks ago -weatherbeaten Elder Statesman John Nance Garner, longtime (1903-32) Texas Congressman, two-term (1933-41) Vice President, spruced up in a new blue suit and his old battered Stetson for a misty-eyed celebration of his goth birthday. On hand for the doings: some 3,000 of the home folks in dusty Uvalde, a loyal guard of political cronies, including ex-President Harry Truman, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Senator Lyndon Johnson. In fine gabby...
When the trial was over (Williams was acquitted), the Georgia Press Association and Atlanta Newspapers. Inc. brought suit challenging the constitutionality of Judge Pye's long reach. Said the Georgia Press Association, amid a statewide chorus of editorial indignation: "A usurpation of greater authority than was granted him by the public which placed him in office . . . Judge Pye's ruling, if literally interpreted. could apply to any home, street or sidewalk in the state of Georgia...
...resultant "pain and mental anguish" plus lost wages (he is still not back at work), Huggins' suit demands a jury trial and $450,000 damages from Dr. Graves and the hospital owners...
...Department won a major battle in its antimerger campaign. In Manhattan's U.S. district court last week, Judge Edward Weinfeld banned the merger of Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube, one of the biggest deals in industrial history. It was the first court test of a Government suit under the Clayton Antitrust Act since it was amended in 1950 to make it tougher...