Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passing through Calais in a green suit, green hat and brown spats he was hailed by a crowd shouting "Vive Calmette! Vive Clemenceau! Vive Ignace!" He did not blink an eyelid...
...worse. Paniter Charchowsky, now well-nigh charred, flung back his reeking sheets. To his delirious senses it seemed that the steam heat was singing and sputtering, that it gave off heat. He put his hand against it, rushed to the basement, found the furnace in full blast, brought suit next day against Landlord Lesch, charged disorderly conduct, conspiracy to drive him from his apartment...
...Coolidge appeared at a press conference in the trousers and vest of a cutaway and the coat of a gray sack suit. He explained that he had just-slipped into another coat after posing for a portrait. He let the correspondents know that he favored voluntary consolidations of railways and hoped that reduction of freight rates on farm products might be brought about in that way. He said he had no plans for venturing on a radical program for farm legislation, and was waiting for further reports on farm conditions. On the World Court, disarmament, debt funding, a new Ambassador...
Feverish eagerness to swim the English Channel still rages among the athletes of the world; a famed metropolitan daily recently referred to the "channel-swimming game," thereby placing this activity in the same category with such recognized diversions as "the advertising game," "the cloak-and-suit game," etc. Last week three swimmers attempted to traverse the angry scar of seas between Calais and Dover-Lieut. Col. Bernard Cyril Freyberg, V. C., Mile. Jeanne Sion, Miss Lillian Harrison. Last week's aspirants were veteran swimmers; all, after tremendous exertions, failed...
...training. She entered a marathon swim from Corbell to Paris, one woman in a field of eleven men. Two black Senegalese swimmers, accustomed to the tepid rivers of Afria, turned saffron, then green with cold, left the race. T. W. Burgess, Englishman who swam the Channel in 1911, followed suit. One by one the giant swimmers quit until only five were left, among them stout-hearted Miss Harrison. At the Austerlitz Bridge she had cramps; at the Chamber of Deputies she recovered; finished fourth after 14 hr. 37 min. of swimming, cheered more loudly by huge waiting crowds than...