Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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England to Australia. Dennis Rooke, onetime member of the British Royal Flying Corps, clad in a grey lounge suit and civilian overcoat climbed in his Moth de Havilland plane last week; set out for Australia, 11,000 miles away. He took along a collapsible bathtub, a few spare parts and maps. He in-tended to make short, leisurely hops. The flight was stimulated by a $10,000 bet, which was later canceled...
...direct balances between separate nations can be struck accurately without reference to other countries, or when these direct balances can be taken as a criterion of the actual trade positions of these countries. The world has become one market. It is a vast composite of many sections which, to suit our political convenience, we call empires, nations and countries but which, in fact, in so far as trade is concerned, have been welded together by the developments of recent years in those two fundamentals, transportation and communication." By those few words he set to naught complaints of South Americans...
Percival Christopher Wren (British author of Beau Geste, Beau Sabreur, etc.) was co-respondent in a divorce suit won by Cyril Graham Smith, civil engineer stationed at Poona, India, from Mrs. Smith, in London...
...similarly satisfying and pleasing nature. True, he may pick up here and there bits of dubious desirability, such as even the darkest age would have been ashamed to feed its intellectual beggars, but where, oh where, shall he turn for the dainty side dish, the morsel done to suit the whines of a discriminating palate...
...Appearing at an inspection of the Spanish fleet in a baggy flannel suit and floppy soft hat, whereas the King and all others present were in full uniform...