Word: suited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greek architecture," says Napoli, "reflects their airy feelings, their groping for space, for sky and sun. The arch simply didn't suit their tastes." But in southern Italy, he reasons, good marble is scarce, and the Greek settlers were forced to rely more upon arches than they had in the past. Napoli now speculates that the Etruscans, who are credited with teaching the Romans about arches, learned arch making from early Greek traders...
...courts have steadily expanded the rights of children to sue for damages resulting from prenatal injury. Now before the courts is a case that marks a milestone in this facet of the law. The plaintiff is an illegitimate child, conceived during the rape of a hospitalized mental patient. Suit has been filed in her behalf to recover damages for the mental anguish of being born a bastard...
...Angel Tom Wolfe, not by fifty gallons of corn pone, but a well-mannered young fellow from Richmond, with long brown hair floating down both sides of a pale, round face that looks more like 24 than 34. This is a Wolfe in chic's clothing: off-white suit, lemon-colored tie, brown-and-white pin-stripe shirt with French cuffs, wine-colored silk handkerchief puffing out of the jacket pocket-when he gets dressed up, in short, he looks like a well-polished Pierce-Arrow...
...accouterments for every conceivable occasion: white flannels for tennis, plus fours for golf, blazer for cricket, bowler, boater and deerstalker, tweeds, pinstripes, tails. Everything but the old elephant gun. He claims that he needs all those togs for professional use, but offstage he is seldom seen wearing the wrong suit or the same one twice. In real life he is as wildly gallant and exaggeratedly debonair as any character he impersonates...
...several Treadways feature a boar's head, suckling pig and medieval carolers. Yet Treadway, where it counts, is very much up-to-date: the ten-story Treadway Inn at Niagara Falls (see MODERN LIVING) is an all-electric motel in which desk clerks manipulate individual room temperatures to suit guests as they check...