Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death . . . just another of those hungry-looking musical fellows. . . . They went to his lodgings, pounded on the door, pushed their way in when there was no answer. . . . They made a formal list of his leavings-six pairs of shoes, a hat, thirteen pairs of socks, a shabby suit, a blanket...
...with what the Department of Fine Arts has been able to produce? The sketches also struck a responsive chord in me--particularly a small sketch hidden away on page 289, untitled, unadorned. There is no use in going over the whole number in these columns, they suit better their natural habitat. Let the Jester mourn. When he does, we can smile; it is only when he is rioting in mirth that we cannot appreciate him. He has done a good job--let him mourn
...opinion of the Illinois Retail Clothiers and Furnishers Association, an organization which can justly afford to be interested in the "college man" inasmuch as it proposes to do something about it. It is prophesied that next spring this problematical personage will array himself in a light gray suit. His hat will be gray: his shoes black. His shirt will be white; his collar soft. His tie will be of a rich cream color. Thus clad he will appear as a figure infinitely more unique than any ordinary individual, for he is in the position of a stranger...
...last week by the purchase of 356 theatres, he enjoys the luxury of reminiscence. Tul-chva, Hungarian village, was his start; the cinema-gorged gulches at Los Angeles his end. On the way was childhood immigration to the U. S.; adult work in Manhattan cutting cloth to cloak & suit patterns for $17 a week; saving of $1,600 and purchase of a Brooklyn ''hole in the wall" for exhibition of what passed for moving pictures in 1904; investment, speculation, expansion as an exhibitor, producer, distributor of films. Last March he bought the Roxy Theatre in Manhattan for "more...
Students who would suit themselves ran into more difficulties last week. Suppressed youths...