Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eyed watchers detected a familiar figure in one of the smaller boxes in the horseshoe in the front of the gallery. There sat Dr. and Mrs. Spence, who had been guests at the White House for several days, and with them was a slender woman in a plain black suit, with a black velvet hat, grey fox collar...
...Detroit there opened the trial of eleven accused Negroes and at the table reserved for defense counsel appeared that baggy figure in grey, with his hands in his pockets, that has become such a landmark in the public eye. Clarence Darrow, in his eternal grey suit, with his hands thrust in his pockets, was sporting a bright blue shirt, white collar, black...
...case at issue was a suit brought by the banking firm of Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. (of Manhattan) against the Alien Property Custodian and the banking firm of Delbruck, Shickler & Co. (of Berlin). The $148.28 was owing to the Manhattan firm by. the Berlin firm before the War. The Manhattan firm wished to collect the debt at the pre-War rate of exchange and with interest to the sum of $20.40. The Berlin firm agreed that the Manhattan firm was entitled to its claim, but argued that the German Government should pay the claim, since the German bankers were not responsible...
...successful issue of his labors. Crowded about him many members of the Cabinet, including the genial Winston Churchill, Lord Cave, Lord Cecil and Colonel Amery. As they wrung his hand, they noted that the returning diplomatic hero had for once chosen to appear publicly in a crinkled grey lounge suit instead of being austerely and formally attired as is his usual custom. Mrs. Chamberlain, who had accompanied her husband to Locarno, was all but overwhelmed with flowers; and outside the station, by special fiat of King George, a state coach waited for the son of famed and beloved...
...Swanton, Md., one J. R. Wilt, a farmer, entered a sworn affidavit that he had worn one suit continuously for 23 years; was presented with a new coat and vest by the store whence he had bought; declared the trousers would last a while longer...