Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little by little the number of refugees was being whittled down, but not fast enough to suit the French Government, which last week announced that it had spent $20,000,000 so far on the care and feeding of the Spanish refugees. In that expense lies, incidentally, the reason why France has been reluctant to return to Generalissimo Franco the $200,000,000 in gold which the former Republican Government left in French banks. The French have let it be known that they expect the Spanish refugee problem to be solved by September in one way or another...
Last week, equipped with a khaki flying suit, a pistol, seven rounds of ammunition, two chocolate bars, sandwiches and 55?, he marched blithely into one Edward Walz's drive-yourself aerodrome at Camden, N. J., rented a two-seated, high-wing Luscombe monoplane ($9 for one hour). In its gas tanks were eight gallons, barely enough for a 175-mile...
...Chicago a suit for separate maintenance disclosed a share-the-husband scheme which had worked temporarily. Introduced as evidence was a letter from Wife Mary Petersen to the other woman, Mrs. Caroline Bertram: "My husband is going to be home on his birthday. . . . If you want to come for coffee and cake it is all right with me. But remember, you are not playing fair with me when you keep him the nights he is supposed to be home. . . . Last night was my night and I was supposed to go with him to cash his check and shop. You took...
...Chicago, Richard Bogash, whose plump, middle-aged mate, Josephine ("Ma") Bogash, is a roller-skating champion brought a $200,000 suit against the Transcontinental Roller Derby Association and Promoter-Manager Leo Seltzer. Grounds: "In the course of the races there are numerous falls in which the limbs of the plaintiff's wife and other parts of her body are exposed to the gaze of a crowd of spectators...
...Matched, two-piece cotton slack suits, now considered acceptable only as "extreme negligee" for beach wear, to sell at around $5 per suit...