Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most people still do not realize that unions can be sued and made to pay damages (hence the frequent demands for incorporation to "make unions responsible"). To trial in Philadelphia last week went a whopping big damage suit, big enough to break the union concerned. In Apex Hosiery Co. v. Branch No. 1, American Federation of Hosiery Workers, et al., the union, its officers and its members stand to lose a maximum of $3,515,872 in triple damages...
Zimmerman in an interview pointed out that besides breeding a chameleon-like teacher who colors his instruction to suit his contemporaries, excessive desire for popularity results in a brand of presentation which can be easily subjected to propaganda purposes...
...cycle by burlesquing it. In The Oklahoma Kid, the current vogue of the Western is dramatically exemplified by the fact that in it James Cagney, whose cinema career has taken him as far toward the great open spaces as gangsters' hideouts, appears equipped with sombrero, cowboy suit, lasso and two remarkably effective hoss pistols...
After listening for three days and deliberating 45 minutes, the jury announced that Robert Wadlow had lost his suit. Overjoyed were Dr. Humberd and his colleagues all over the U. S., for the decision reaffirmed their privilege of freely reporting medical phenomena for the benefit of science...
Reason for the convention: Robert Wadlow, tallest man in the world (he claims an alltime high of 8 ft. 8 in.), had brought suit for $100,000 against Dr. Charles Dean Humberd of Barnard, Mo. Dr. Humberd had described Wadlow, in a scientific article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, as "apathetic, unfriendly, antagonistic...