Word: suited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dove season, and Governor Talmadge, an ardent hunter, was eager to get out into the millet fields. Writer Davidson, a city boy from Baltimore, went along. "I guess," he says ruefully, "I'm the only guy who ever went dove hunting in a grey flannel suit." On the second afternoon afield, "Spence" fired and missed one shot at a dove, gave up and contented himself with watching his sharpshooting host...
...grey-flannel-suited dirt farmerette from New Jersey named Doris Duke, better known as a money-marinated tobacco heiress and sometime jazz pianist, bitterly argued the merits of floribunda hedges and compost heaps in a Manhattan pretrial hearing. Her legal adversary was a sometime play producer named Luther (A Sleep of Prisoners) Greene, also something of an agrarian reformer, who claimed that Doris owed him $2,500 for applying his Greene thumb to her "tragically outmoded" 2,500-acre patch of flora in exurban Somerville. Flower Girl Duke countered that Greene was trying to make her "forget...
...paragraphs of the recent article on the Student Council funds I thought freshmen were going to be patted on the head for showing such plentious school spirit, something most of us thought we had securely stuffed into some far distant locker along with a soggy, twelfth grade gym suit. As I read on I realized we were indeed being patted on the head in much the same manner as one might ruffle the hair of a four year old after snatching his lollypop...
...brought on by higher Government excise taxes. Publicker Industries (Old Hickory, Embassy Club) and Joseph Seagram & Sons (Calvert, Four Roses) have decided to pass on rising production costs with 4% increase at wholesale level, or an average 35? more per fifth at retail. Rest of industry will probably follow suit...
FAIR TRADE LAW now has been knocked out in Utah, where state supreme court ruled against General Electric Co. in suit brought to stop discount house from cut-rating G.E. appliances, declared that Fair Trade, in effect since 1937, runs counter to Utah's constitution. Other states where Fair Trade has been dropped: Nebraska, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Oregon, Virginia, Louisiana...