Word: suites
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...band struck up the Star-Spangled Banner, and the President stood motionless, his hat over his heart, as the rain of a summer shower spattered down on him.* Then, before a rosette of microphones, the President ignored the raindrops streaming down his face and soaking his summer suit. "After the hard week I have been through," he said, "it is very heart warming to have such a reception . . . It's really great to be home." Of the conference at the summit, he said: "Just what will be the result ... no one knows. But the coming months will tell much...
...Coach Borah says that more eminent institutions of learning shop for tramp athletes, but put up a pious front, whereas he comes right out in the open. There is something to that ... If his methods catch on, we should not be surprised if other institutions of higher learning follow suit. One can imagine Yale appealing in the following terms...
...rents in line with the prevailing level, Brady was not. The VA had signed a contract with Brady to accept $1 from him "in full payment of all rental during the term of occupancy." Just how this had happened, the VA did not know. Last week the Government brought suit to evict Brady. At week's end Brady, 69, was unruffled by the suit, looked forward to a ripe, rent-free...
...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the state's censorship law (part of the Puritans' 300-year-old Sunday blue laws) is unconstitutional, "void on its face as a prior restraint on the freedom of speech and the press." The decision resulted from a suit by Brattle Films, Inc. when state censors refused to allow Sunday showings of Sweden's Miss Julie. ("The girl in it is illegitimate; how would you like for your sister to see a film about an illegitimate girl?" a censor asked a theater manager...
Shape Up. In Los Angeles, Model Bernice Rye, 30, won a divorce after testifying that Husband Ernest Rye, 41, entertained friends by comparing her figure to photographs of his former wife in shorts or bathing suit...