Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury, the stocky Secretary of Labor, the firm-set Postmaster General, the rather unwieldy Secretary of the Navy, the youthful Acting Secretary of War and the three who had welcomed the. incoming train, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Jardine and Mr. Kellogg (clad, this time, in a white palm beach suit and carrying a straw...
...sudden and overpowering desire to go home. In a few days the bookings for the Majestic swelled from 1,700 to 2,300 -a. record number this year for the westward voyage. Bookings came in so rapidly that soon all accommodations were occupied. Men in'.the cloak and suit business who had been abroad buying and had to be back for fall openings, fell on their knees and implored officials for passage, offering two and three times the regular fare-to no avail...
Then there was a party at Lady Astor's, to which he went in a baggy suit to meet the Prince. After dinner the Prince asked him: "Mr. Thorne, do you think any serious troubles will arise in the country...
...spoke in modulated Spanish vocables, which his interpreter translated into the harsh foreign tongue. Suddenly he seemed to wax eloquent. The reporters sensed that something dramatic was coming. He waved his manicured finger tips at his silk shirt, his gold wristwatch, his well tailored suit...
...many years U. S. steel makers have largely disregarded their waste products. Meanwhile German steel manufacturers have largely compensated themselves for their inferior supplies of raw materials and their smaller ordinary output, by utilizing to the limit all waste products of steel making. Now U. S. companies are following suit in a manner resembling that followed by Chicago packers with meat products years...