Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question taken up before the courts which had completely acquitted Mr. Taggart. People marvelled at Miss Ferber's statement that she "desired above all to avoid further publicity," for the affair looked like a shrewd stunt to make Show Boat re-Ferberate through the land. Anyway, Tom threatened suit against her† for $100,000, and the name "Tom Taggart" was subsequently changed to "Sam Maddock" (same number of letters to avoid typographical difficulty). But 135,000 copies had already been sold and there had been publicity, desirable or otherwise...
...Doubleday, Page & Co. are the publishers, but are not responsible in case of suit over any fiction because of a flat guarantee required of authors that their work contains nothing libelous or so indecent as to outrage public morals. Author Ferber was sued some years ago by her onetime landlady in Chicago, who claimed damages for her portrayal as a drab character...
...Every nation is working on the submarine. It certainly has not been outlawed. Great Britain, who complained so severely of submarine warfare ten years ago, is now building some of the world's finest undersea vessels. Japan is following suit...
...Duke saw greater gains for himself from dealing with the Aluminum Co. He traded his hydro-electric developments and rights for Aluminum Co. interests. He became a director of the latter. Manufacturer Haskell was left alone with his plans-and his wrath. He has pending in Boston courts a suit against the Aluminum Co. for $15,000,000 damages. Last week, still wroth, he filed another suit in Manhattan. If monopoly, in the sense established by the Sherman Anti-Trust law, is proved against a corporation such as the Aluminum Co. of America, the plaintiff is entitled to three times...
Sprucely habited in white yachting flannels, II Duce took the tiller. Throughout the week he sailed, fished, occasionally donned his bathing suit, leaned from the prow, a wide-eyed, hirsute figurehead...