Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a pompadour. Court records show that Arthur F. Willebrandt divorced "M. Elizabeth Willebrandt" in 1925. The disguised name was Mrs. Willebrandt's idea. Mr. Willebrandt's grounds were amicable. He charged desertion after they had been separated some eight years. She did not contest the suit...
...British peer is perhaps "Lord Chumly," spelled Cholmondeley. The Marquess and Marchioness of Cholmondeley stubbornly persist in calling themselves "Chumly." Last week their daughter, Lady Aline "Chumly," presided over a charity rummage sale at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, while their youngest man child, Lord John "Chumly" donned a "cowboy suit" (imported from the U. S.) and took sixpences from people who wanted to dip into a bran tub for prizes of doubtful value...
...additional sum based on the 1927 earnings of the Constitution. A disagreement arose over the auditing of the earnings. Col. Lea and his associate bankers, Rogers, Caldwell, sued the Howell family to compel a sale for an additional $54,000. Last week both sides agreed to drop the suit...
...Klein's satisfaction was natural. Two years ago his bureau had stirred the U. S. Department of Justice to bring an anti-trust suit against 27 Dutch, British, Japanese, German, French, Swiss and U. S. firms who were restraining the quinine trade...
...might be possible for chemists to synthesize quinine to break up the Dutch-led international monopoly of natural quinine. An easier way was for the U. S. Government to bring the suit. The prosecutors could not subpoena the foreigners. So they confiscated great quantities of quinine stored at Manhattan. To get back the goods the monopolists last week, through their U. S. lawyers, promised to cease their practices in so far as the U. S. was concerned. So the suit was nolled and withdrawn "by consent...