Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such persons as had not seen the President since he left for South Dakota, were struck by something which had been imperceptible to eyes that have been seeing the President right along. The President is thinner. His new gray suit buttons neat and flat in front where his old blue suits used to bulge slightly...
...balm for releasing his hold upon the elderly spinster of their party; the hunting expedition to which the jelly-bellied Pickwick sallies forth in a wheelbarrow; the court scene in Guildhall where Sergeant Buzfuz (bellowing in the person of Bruce Winston) wins the Widow Bardell's suit for breach of promise against the harassed but philosophical hero...
...used; has covered the course in 72; frequently beats the "pro." He is fair at tennis. At St. Bernard's he took no more interest in athletics than he did in studies or in social activities. He was indifferent even to dress, favored $2.50 hats, and ready-made suits. When the Perroquet de Paris was opened to the elite of Manhattan's night life, Roger Kahn left his expensive tuxedos hanging in the closet, wore a $40 suit bought the day before from Brill Bros. Of course, he was only a boy then?19. Now, almost 20, he is growing...
...social function. Mrs. Walker wore a yellow, fragile garment, a morning dress. At dinner Mayor Walker's trunk had not arrived; ill-dressed for the first time in his political career, he sauntered into the restaurant at his hotel, clad not in evening clothes but in a lounge suit. Cosmopolites, attracted by the Mayor's complete nonchalance, forgave this defect...
Soon the superintendent of the Trinity Building discovered Joseph Fodor, workman, dressed in a blue suit, jumping lippety-lip along the parapets that border the roof. Informed that his daring high kicks, his cool pirouettes, his shocking splits excited the office workers, Joseph Fodor stopped and made this statement: "It was great sport dancing on the edge of things. There can be nothing like it unless it is flying. I should like to fly some time. But I shall dance no more, at least not here...