Word: suiter
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...cloak-and-suiter term for a tapering jacket...
...Suiter. Undeterred by this rebuff, Hughes set about chivying President Charles Tillinghast, whom the trustees had put in to run TWA. On one occasion Hughes threatened to bring suit against the airline for ignoring his wishes. Last week, instead. TWA's management filed suit against Hughes. Hughes Tool Co. and Raymond Holliday for alleged violation of the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts. TWA's avowed hope: to win a court order obliging Hughes to get rid of all stock in TWA and to cease trying to exercise control over the line...
...incompatible with the notion of 'Soviet man.' " Another word that seemed to be incompatible with Soviet man was Nobel. For winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, Boris Pasternak edged further into the Communist doghouse. A third word bothering the Russians was stilyagi, which means a zoot-suiter who wears narrow trousers, likes rock 'n' roll and hates work. For a report on Russia's three bothersome little words, see FOREIGN NEWS...
...other mourners, the answer emerges. A gentle drunkard, Machek's brother-in-law, dreamily remembers how Stanislaw came to the U.S., how he became foreman in a knitting mill, fathered five daughters. Stella herself appears, a slut (or so it seems) newly married to a fat cloak-and-suiter. As details of her childhood come into focus, the reader approaches the shattered central figure of Stanislaw Machek...
...Mama Miller and her balding husband Isidore sat on the porch and talked about "the children." "I made a chicken," fretted Mama, a Brooklyn housewife. "I wish I knew whether they're coming home, so I would know how much potatoes to make." Papa, a retired cloak-and-suiter, consoled her: "Don't worry. I don't think they've forgotten us." At 9:30 p.m., the children returned to Roxbury. To nobody's surprise, Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller, 40, and Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 30, had slipped across the nearby...