Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Statue of Liberty looked down on a very neatly dressed gentleman. He wore white gloves and tan shoes. He carried an ivory headed malacca cane. His shirt and collar were of a delicate shade of blue. His cravat was blazoned in red and green. He wore a dark blue suit and atop his head concealing the shining mass of his cranium sat a green felt hat, soft, pour le sport...
...Chicago, Judge Thomas W. Slick sits on the bench sifting the chaff which is all there is left from the winnowing of ambitions and aspirations of five years ago. Before him last week was a case, Procter v. Sprague, a suit to recover $50,000, a part of the $1,750,- 000 that went glimmering with the hopes of both gentlemen in that great year of glimmerings...
...face. . . The Mirror has won. If he comes back to New York the Mirror will renew its campaign to get him away." With this valedictory, the Mirror published a picture of a small brunette, "winsome little Virginia Frank," and credited her with having spurned the wealthy slayer's suit. " 'Let other girls wear his jewelry,' she said...
Asked a jokester: "Will the public soon be advised that it can have 13 green certificates with every union suit it buys on Saturday...
Neither the chauffeur nor horses slackened speed sufficiently to suit King Boris. He leaped to the running board of his car, leaped for the bridle of one of the horses as it dashed past, hung on until the team halted, and "probably saved the lives of several children who were riding in the wagon...