Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sunburned girl in a bathing suit, her ankles ringletted with bells, danced in a Manhattan ballroom last week a dance that few white men had ever seen before. To a slow orchestral accompaniment she pounded barefoot on the floor, bowed low, bent back, made gestures as of sowing grain, beseeching fertility. Lining the walls on three sides sat 80 interested men and women. Some were young, some were white-haired, most were matronly looking women and burly, oldish men. Fascinated, they began to beat the rhythm with their programs, then one by one they rose, joined the dancer...
Brother Gus last week brought in Washington a libel suit for $1,000,000 damages against Mrs. Willebrandt and Current News Features, Inc., which had syndicated her articles. He said he felt such a charge of official misconduct might injure his reputation. In St. Louis he moved to tie up payments to Mrs. Willebrandt by the Post-Dispatch, though this paper, in publishing her article, had deleted from the sentence quoted above all reference to Gus Nations...
Coal Is Trump. Of course such ringing blarney was not the only trump in the hand of Privy Seal Jim (one of the best bridge players in London and always for highest stakes). His long suit was a scheme which he privately unfolded to that shrewd though cherub-faced statesman Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister in Canada...
...Milton G. Marx, wife of the dress-manufacturing fifth brother of the four famed Marx brothers (Harpo, Groucho, Zeppo, Chico), brought suit against the parents of her first husband, the late R. Russell von Tilzer, for custody of the child she bore him. now aged 19 months...
...love-singer, for breaking a 50-50 partnership Lown says they had. Lown said he started Vallee on Broadway ,and "trained him to put a certain sob-like tone in his voice which . . . has proved one of the main sources of his present singing popularity." Replied Sobber Vallee: "The suit is too preposterous to discuss...