Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paints pictures of the deep sea. Where the coral spreads its fan, where sea-grass lifts and sways to currents vague as wind, and blunt-nosed fishes ply, this way and that, their white bellies agleam, their eyes phosphorescent, there goes Painter Pritchard in a kind of diving suit. His pictures are hung in the Natural History Museum, Manhattan, in many European galleries. Says...
...pair of boots for Jack Sheppard," "A sword for the Red Knight," "A suit of armor for Sir Florian." Thus spoke honest burghers in London printshops on Saturday nights. They laid down their pennies, took home boots, sword, armor, cut them from their cards, pasted them on the effigies of contemporary actors. They took pains. Often the scenes constructed in the three-sided rooms of the toy theatres were works of subtle art. Artists afterwards famed sometimes got bread by engraving the penny cards, the tuppeny cards-Blake, Flaxman, Cruikshank. Thousands worked at the making of the theatres; now only...
...suit of armor for Sir Florian...
...Suit was brought by George F. Willett, Norwood manufacturer, against Robert F. Herrick, prominent Boston corporation lawyer, and the partners of the banking firm of F. S. Mosely & Co. and Kidder, Peabody & Co. for a conspiracy on the part of the defendant bankers and Mr. Herrick, their counsel, to get for themselves valuable manufacturing properties including the American Felt Co. and the Daniel Green Felt Shoe Co., belonging to the plaintiff and his partners...
Separated. Lieut. Osborne C. Wood, son of Major General Leonard Wood, from Katherine Thompson Wood. He is in Paris, she at her father's home in Greenville, Del. Said she: "We are separated and have been for several months. I shall start suit for a divorce." He recently achieved the attention of the U. S. press with stock operations by which he was reputed to have made...