Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hendrik Willem van Loon, cartoonist-historian : "In Berlin, where I was last week endeavoring to sell the German rights to my picture-history America, I announced: 'Europe is poor, her art and literature are bunk and all she is thinking of is three square meals and a suit of clothes. . . . Europe thinks we have some magic formula. It is really only that we live and let live, whereas Europe lives and lets starve. . . . Europeans only read about Ford, Rockefeller, Edison, portable tea-tables, shoes and jazz records, and are convinced Americans do not have to work to enjoy life...
...Manhattan, last week, a divorce suit began which might never have received publicity had not two of the principals, mustachioed Col. Edward C. Carrington (onetime campaign manager for Theodore Roosevelt) and his brother, Campbell Carrington, battled violently with canes on Park Ave. Colonel Carrington accused his wife and brother of adultery...
Last week Philadelphia newspapermen noted that President Hoover would go to Federal Court there. He has just filed suit against the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. and the managers of the late Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition. He claims that they have done him out of the Grand Prize for carpet cleaning machines by "a serious error which has greatly prejudiced the Hoover...
...there was indignation in the Hoover plant at Canton, Ohio, when the Sesquicentennial Exposition managers gave the grand prize to the Eureka and the secondary gold medal to the Hoover. "There was knavery in the awarding," said Hoover men, and their lawyers brought suit, alleging that the Exposition managers unexpectedly changed the rules of their carpet cleaner contest, that they unexpectedly changed their jury of award, that an award of a gold medal to Eureka had been wrongly changed to the award of the grand prize. The Eureka Co. has done damage to the Hoover concern reads the bill...
...plav may postpone the next war with Mexico for several weeks. 2) For a line relative to making war on Mexico for the sake of oil interests? "Hearst tried in 1911, but he didn't get away with it"?Oilman William Randolph Hearst may institute libel suit against Producer Jed Harris. 3) Theatregoers have a perfect example of the modern drama of "debunk" ? melodramatic, cruelly ironical, peppered with smart cracks, staged with a faithfulness to reality that belies its flashy, imaginative cunning...