Word: suited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comparison with Port Said, the old folks on the front steps tell the tale of a pretty little boy with rosy cheeks and light brown ringlets who went skipping along the sidewalk in one of the nation's hairiest neighborhoods -all dressed up in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. "Hey!" said one little denizen of the neighborhood. "Lookit momma's dolling!" It was the work of a moment for the roughneck and his pal to redecorate the object of their interest with a barrage of rotten fruit. Then they opened their mouths to laugh, but no sound came...
...German economic recovery has zoomed, labor's drive to cut the work week (from an average 48.7 hr.) has gathered momentum. Last week West German miners voted to strike, if necessary, for an eventual 40-hour week. Other key unions, e.g., steel and ironworkers, were expected to follow suit. Within five years, said D.G. Boss Walter Freitag, he hopes to convince employers throughout West Germany that weekends are wonderful indeed...
American Family, now decorating the new Police Facilities Building, brought from one city councilman an enraged blast ("A shameless, soulless, faceless, raceless monstrosity"), and from six taxpayers a suit for its removal...
...dissemination of news and advertising" in the Kansas City area (TIME, March 7), the Kansas City Star last week got its punishment. Federal Judge Richard M. Duncan fined the paper $5,000 and also fined Advertising Director Emil A. Sees $2,500 for attempting to monopolize. A companion civil suit, still pending, seeks to force the Star Co. to divorce its radio-TV station, WDAF, from its newspapers and to split up the evening Star and its morning sister, the Times, into two separate papers as far as circulation and ad rates are concerned. Said Star President Roy Roberts...
...this sounds like the stuff of any one of a hundred novels at the local lending library. But Simenon does not see Steve just as a man in a grey flannel suit. Rather, he is the unwilling wearer of a hair shirt imposed on him by a world he never made and is too weak to remake. Soon enough Steve gets a little outside ordinary life. On an auto trip to Maine with Nancy to pick up their children at camp, he gets drunk and Nancy leaves him to go on by bus. When Steve picks up a hunted criminal...