Word: suited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...startling example: a Passion play in which Christ is a young man with an Elvis Presley haircut, scuffed loafers and worn jeans. The Virgin Mary, plump and nondescript, was the British version of anybody's mum. Pontius Pilate was suave and courteously detached in a well-pressed lounge suit, nonchalantly lighted a cigarette after he signed Christ's death warrant. The Roman soldiers were simple types in British battle dress...
...this testimony in Paul Hull's suit against Carroll, a Spokane jury last week awarded him $35,823 for his wife's death, $2,000 because both he and their daughter, 2, contracted TB from...
...softer and shorter-looking. Perhaps this was only because for weeks his picture had been gazing out over me from hundreds of Soviet walls, and in these tinted official photographs, two or three times lifesize, his features are planed off and hardened. He was wearing a well-cut suit, dark blue verging on black, a soft white shirt with French cuffs, and a light grey tie. He placed the young interpreter from the Foreign Ministry at the head of the long, green baize conference table, and himself took a seat at the side, his back to the windows that look...
...Maria, now 31, remembers the meeting, "I noticed him because there was some woman seeing him off. and a man seeing me off, and we were both kissing goodbye. When the plane took off, I took a long look at this man in a baggy tweed suit, unshaven, a mess. He looked like some professor. But when we started to talk, I realized he was the most intelligent man I had ever met. By the time we were over London and the dawn was coming up, he proposed to me. It was romantic and wonderful." Squiring Maria around Paris morning...
...Thrill-Killer Prisoner 9306-D for 33 years, six months and two days walked nervously from Illinois' Stateville penitentiary one day last week. Trim in a prison-made blue suit, paroled Nathan Leopold Jr., 53, took the arm of Lawyer Elmer Gertz, pushed his way to five microphones set up on a nearby road, and over shouts and shutter clicks read a statement to 100-odd newsmen and photographers: "I beg, I beseech you ... to grant me a gift almost as precious as freedom itself-a gift without which freedom ceases to have much value-the gift of privacy...