Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moments, he disappeared and came back with Mrs. Dawes, who was dressed in a blue* suit with hat to match. The inaugural committee was waiting in the lobby. Mr. and Mrs. Dawes entered an open car with Senator Curtis. A troop of cavalry formed as an escort and they drove around the corner to the White House...
...were driven away to the Capitol. A dozen cars carrying the Congressional Inaugural Committee, Cabinet members, aids, etc., lined up in the White House driveway. The President and the Vice President emerged from the White House and paused to be photographed. Mrs. Coolidge appeared in a modish ensemble suit of moonstone gray, "joseema" cloth (a sort of cross between duvetyn and kasha), with a gray fox collar. Her hat was likewise gray with a trimming of burnt goose feathers...
...suit has arrangements so that the diver can cast off his ropes and telephone cable and work freely, with ballast tanks which may be emptied by compressed air so as to enable him to rise to the surface and maneuver. Because the diver, thus converted into a sort of one-man submarine, is not subjected to high air pressure, he can rise to the surface rapidly without ill effects...
...ordinary diving suit, with a body of fabric, inflated by air, subjects the wearer to air pressure as great as the water pressure without. †The depth attainable in ordinary suits is about 180 feet
When members of the Memorial Association heard that Borglum had smashed his models, they declared that it was "the act of a hoodlum, a vandal." They filed suit against him for $50,000, issued a warrant for his arrest, charged him with committing a malicious mischief. The constables of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia were furnished descriptions of mustachioed, baldheaded, large-eared Borglum and Accessory Tucker. The hunt began, continued for two days. Excited loafers from the depot declared that a man of Borglum's kind had boarded a train for Cincinnati; a garage keeper...