Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President ?Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, injected a new issue into the contest. He published a plan for tax reduction?not simply an idea, but a plan worked out in all its details (TIME, Nov. 19 et seq.). Tax reduction was the one suit which politicians had not expected to play. They were as startled as auction bridge players hearing a bid of nullo. What surprised them at first was the avidity with which the public took to the notion of tax reduction. The Congressmen, who were at first noncommittally opposed, soon turned lukewarm, later...
...reception room outside the dining room, is posted on the same side of the ship and the space used for after-dinner dancing is also on that side. "The ship's gymnasium, swimming pool and squash racquets court will be available to the Prince at hours to suit his convenience. As he is an enthusiastic squash player, it is expected that he will use the court an hour or so each morning. He will find in William Bryant, the attendant in charge, an old acquaintance, with whom he played frequently some years ago, on the courts at the Bath...
...Matthew; Portrait of a Man with a Letter; Descent from the Crass (also reported to have cost $500,000). Two portraits in his collection (A Gentleman With High Hat and Gloves in Right Hand; and A Lady with Ostrich Feather Fan in Right Hand) are the subject of the suit instituted in the Supreme Court by Prince Yusupov, a participant in the arduous murder of Monk Rasputin. Yusupov sold the pictures to Mr. Widener in 1921, but maintains that a clause in the contract gave him the privilege of repurchase at the original price plus 8% interest, provided he used...
...rest of the students quickly followed suit, and the police retired in temporary disorder. In a moment they returned on foot and shortly succeeded in clubbing the men into submission. Most of the University students escaped by crossing the bridge into Cambridge, out of the jurisdiction of the Boston policemen. The others, Tech students, whose school was at that time in Boston, were not so fortunate and were captured in large numbers...
...course there is a catch in these figures. . . . His heirs are limiting their law suit de luxe to three four-hour sessions weekly...