Word: suited
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pope Mfg. Co. in 1898), communicate with Henry Ford of Detroit, Mich., and he will no doubt smile with pleasure. Mr. Ford wants a Dos-A-Dos because his engineers believe that it was equipped with 'demountable & interchangeable wheels. The Packard Motor Car Co. has brought a patent infringement suit against the Ford Motor Co. because of the demountable & interchangeable wheels on the new Fords. Thus, a Dos-A-Dos might possibly be favorable evidence for Mr. Ford. His agents were last week poking in old barns for a Dos-A-Dos. Among onetime owners...
...hospital, nursing injuries received when John Coolidge, driving Governor Trumbull's car, crashed the Veno car (TIME, Oct. 8), said that he had been assured that President Coolidge would "take care of him." He displayed two dozen roses from the President. He said there would be no damage suit...
When Publisher Hearst was a Democrat, Cartoonist Powers invented his famed figure, the "Interests." It was his pen also which identified the late Marcus Alonzo Hanna with the dollarsign. This year the "Interests" have been cleverly brought back to suit the shift in Hearst politics and, between them, the Messrs. Powers and Brisbane have personified the present-day Democracy as a female donkey called "Diamond Lil." They took the name from a play by much-arrested Actress Mae West?a play about a clever, jewel-laden harlot. They have pictured "Diamond Lil" ogling the farmer, sweltering in a Tammany furpiece...
Mail Order. National Bellas Hess Co., with a $40,000,000 yearly retail mail order business, has bought Charles Williams Stores, Inc., with a $17,000,000 retail mail order business. Both headquarters are in Manhattan. National Bellas Hess is successor of the National Cloak & Suit...
...found floating last week the body of a dead man. On the man was only underwear. His clothes, discovered later on the Willys beach, contained the following memo: "Sunday-Took a trip to Oyster Bay. The afternoon is sunny and cheerful. Sorry I did not bring my bathing suit, as I find quite a few bathing and enjoying it." The ill-fated intruder on Mr. Willys' private beach was identified as R. A. Richard, Manhattan salesman...