Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suit is the climax of a long-standing antipathy between the two wealthiest men in U. S. political life. One of course, is Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, aluminum potentate and banker. The other is that onetime coal-yard-worker, James Couzens, who is now Senator from Michigan. They have been at swords' points ever since 1924 when Senator Couzens expressed hearty disapproval of Secretary Mellon's tax reduction program. A year later, Senator Couzens began poking into the affairs of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, made public a report, charged the Treasury Department with laxity...
...greatest tax suit in U. S. chronicles is not a time to economize on legal talent. The defendants have hired an impressive force: Joseph E. Davies, onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission; John W. Davis, De- mocratic nominee for President in 1924; and others, perhaps Charles E. Hughes. Against these bigwigs, Secretary Mellon has sent a smart young man of 27-Alexander W. Gregg. Mr. Mellon has been accused of possessing many kinds of genius, and not the least of them is his ability to pick certain youths from among other youths, and lift them to fame. Mr. Gregg...
...white wig. His green stockings, oddly swollen, protruded from the pantaloons of a pierrot suit, and his face, painted half red, half white above his lace ruff, under a hat tipped with a pompon, leered dreadfully into the black polished depths of a cheval-glass. Beside him lay an overturned stool. A rope, strung through pulleys, connected his neck with the ceiling...
...President of the Society of Free Thinkers recently brought suit against the New York Board of Education because one hour from every public school week has been left open for religious education of any sort the parents of pupils may choose. This parochial instruction, furthermore, is optional. It seems to us that it is rather an anomalous sort of free thinking which attempts to curtail parents' right of choice in the matter of their offspring's religious education. Free and anti-religious are not generally considered synonymous...
...climbed more mountain peaks than any other Alpinist of royal or imperial blood. He is an all 'round sportsman with a keen interest in baseball. His attire, when he landed from the Majestic, was faultless to the point of being inconspicuous: a derby hat, black coat, black suit, black tie and a correct white mourning shirt with narrow black stripes. Yet neither shopgirls nor stenographers yearned at him from high windows, or stood upon sidewalks to ogle up at "The Prince...