Word: suited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening of amiable conversation; a genially drunken friend of the family; a correct, quiet, cordial entertainment is the sum. Madge Kennedy plays prettily; the father-in-law is Gilbert Emery, practically the only U. S. actor who can wear a double breasted suit as though he owned it. Critics are generously delighted with Paris Bound. The title refers to the widening quota of comfortable Americans to whom the sea of matrimony is simply a broad Atlantic with French divorce courts at the voyage...
...There was only one possible thing to do," he continued, "in order to save the men, and that was to raise the boat. Many suggestions were sent in to the rescue party, asking them to cut a hole in the side of the submarine, and give the men diving suits in which to rise to the surface. Little did they know that at least three hours is required to put a man in a diving suit and instruct him in the use of it. By this time enough water would have poured through the hole to fill the entire ship...
...impudence fading out of their faces. A few years later, called Gilda Gray by that time, she went into the Ziegfeld Follies in Manhattan. Since then she has toured the U. S., acted in cinemas, allowed her husband, Gil Boag (against whom she has recently filed charges in a suit for divorce), to advertise her as well as any woman has ever been advertised...
...Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski. His red and gold salon carriage* blazoning the white eagle of Poland had barely stopped at the Geneva station when French Consul General Ame LeRoy stepped aboard and gently took in tow the tigerish Marshal. Bystanders smiled when this arch-militarist appeared in a civilian suit and soft felt hat. They sobered, however, as his hand snapped automatically to return a salute and he stalked from the station with long, dynamic strides...
...realize that Wabash students at times have been known to attend lectures, recitations, and laboratories in informal attire! It is a well known fact that no student would dare attend a Harvard lecture, a Dartmouth laboratory, or an Amherst recitation, unless he were clothed in a full dress suit, or at least a tuxedo...