Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rounds, there is a new side show: for a nominal sum one may throw baseballs at a wooden door surmounting a small sliding board, and if one strikes the bullseye in the center of the door it pops open, a bell rings, a young lady in a bathing suit slides down, makes her low to the audience, and departs. There are four of these doors, each labelled with the name of the damsel it conceals...
...taking the liberty of writing you regarding your comment on the Hoover v. Eureka [vacuum cleaner] suit as outlined on page 33-34 of TIME, April 18, because it makes rather adverse reference to the carpet sweeper and even specifically mentions Bissell sweepers...
...first coming to Washington, the President ordered a suit from an H Street tailor; price, $65. Today his suits are of a type for which from $125 to $140 is standard price. He usually choses suits of blue or grey; has one brown suit, purchased at Mrs. Coolidge's suggestion that he vary his colors. He -'likes to wear double-breasted coats. His trousers have no cuffs. He never wears checks, is not fond of striped effects, shuns soft collars, prefers 'black footgear to brown, high to low. He wears no jewelry save a ring (left third...
...said Judge Fred M. Raymond of the U. S. District Court at Detroit, in announcing last week that the $1,000,000 suit of Aaron Sapiro, farm organizer, against Henry Ford, publisher of the allegedly libelous Dearborn Independent, had come to a mistrial.* It was a bad end. Detectives had snooped. Insults had climbed upon the backs of innuendoes. Some of the principals were sick and injured. Everyone was vexed...
...such criticism, as to lionizing, he is apparently impervious. He seems to be writing about actual friends of his, or people he would like to have for friends, with an inflection that first of all suits himself, however well it may also suit the public. When they call him a literary lackey he is artist enough not to mind. He snickers softly up his poplin cuff. The point has been missed, yet his work is good, it satisfies his Oriental sense of perfection and it sells enormously...