Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Viscount Gladstone, 73, lively son of the late famed Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, continued last week to make unbridled use of the adjective "foul," as the libel suit brought against him by Captain Peter Wright (TIME, Feb. 7) continued. Originally Viscount Gladstone merely declared: "Captain Wright is a foul fellow!" referring to aspersions cast upon Prime Minister Gladstone in Captain Wright's book: Portraits and Criticisms (TIME, July 26). But last week, when Viscount Gladstone took the stand, he delivered himself as follows: "Captain Wright made a foul and loathsome charge against my father...
Aldo Parceno. Aged 14, equipped with a new suit, anticipating a party and gifts, Aldo Parceno of Brooklyn went to school to get his final term marks. The list of graduates was read out. Aldo was not mentioned. He inquired. There was no mistake. He went home. His mother was ready with a piece of his favorite cake and a cup of coffee. "I'm not to graduate," he said. He went into the bathroom. . . . His brother Salvatore, aged 10, came home in time to find Aldo, gas tube in his mouth, unconscious. He was saved...
...young pup, for all his peerage, a loud and foul-mouthed lord. Had Captain Wright rested content with $625 damages, he and his charges against the late Prime Minister would have seemed vindicated. But Captain Wright, having drawn blood, or rather golden damages, tried for more. He brought suit for libel against Viscount Gladstone, who happens not to be "a young pup," is aged...
John W. Anderson, attorney who organized the Ford Motor Co.: "I was called to the witness stand in the $34,000,000 Ford tax suit now in progress in Detroit. I told how I invested $5,000 which later mounted to several millions. I told about a certain night in 1913. Said I: 'On that particular night I arrived at Geneva, Switzerland. The children were there and we had dinner in our rooms. The cable [announcing Ford stock to be worth $500 a share] was handed to me. . . . I told Mrs. Anderson to put on her hat and we would...
...Filling a long-felt need in the life of the University, the News so expanded that other colleges were quick to follow suit. The Harvard Crimson appeared in 1879, and a year later, the first issue of the Cornell Daily Sun was published,"--Yale Daily News...