Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Legion accused of being "bums, tramps and vagabonds" and "bought with British gold to suppress truth" was vindicated in Chicago. Arthur Lorenz, former editor of the Illinois Staats Zeitung (German), made the above remarks editorially. Suit was brought for criminal libel and Mr. Lorenz convicted by a jury. Unless he can secure a new trial he is liable to a year in prison, a $500 fine, or both...
Endless testimony, intricate detail, points of law, and points of fact, characterized the progress of the Government's suit to recover 4,800 German chemical patents, seized and sold to the Chemical Foundation of Wilmington. Over two weeks have been spent by the Government in striving to prove that the transaction was " fraudulent "; because the price was "altogether inadequate" ($250,000), because President Wilson was " not properly informed" in sanctioning the sale, and because Francis P. Garvan, then Alien Property Custodian, sold patents to the Foundation of which he became President...
...REJUVENATED) FOLLIES? The outlook wasn't brilliant for the buyers when Mr. Ziegfeld announced the second season of the year-old Follies. Thousands of pleading, imprecating letters from cloak-and-suit men the country over forced him to change his mind. Accordingly he has published a " revised " edition of the Follies. Retaining Gilda Gray, Gallagher and Shean, Evelyn Law, Andrew Tombs, he has added such personages as Ann Pennington, Brooke Johns, Eddie Cantor. The result is a freshening pulse throughout...
While Lady Astor was the only woman in the House of Commons she dressed in a severe black suit with black...
...make matters worse the French papers make no real distinction between news matter and editorial matter. News despatches are seasoned to suit the taste of the editor or news agency, without the least compunction...