Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third President of the U. S. to woo and win in the White House.* began when he met Mrs. Galt, who was brought to the White House one day by the President's Cousin Helen Bones. They had a laugh together over her muddy shoes, his disheveled golf suit. Later she joined the family circle when Woodrow Wilson read aloud, went for automobile rides with him and Miss Bones. Barely two months later when the President proposed marriage, she was so surprised that she blurted: "Oh, you can't love me, for you don't really know...
...wigged block of wood, and an oft-replaced body inside which is a trigger with which Bergen makes the little fellow leer, bow, grimace. He has a standin, used in cinema work and for some publicity stills; a wardrobe that includes a supply of monocles, two full dress suits, a supply of starchy linen, ten hats size 3½, including several toppers, two berets; a Sherlock Holmes outfit, jockey silks, a cowboy suit, a French Foreign Legion uniform, a gypsy costume ("It's the Gypsy in me"). He wears baby-size shoes, spends $1,000 a year for wardrobe...
...Sally Rand's "Nude Ranch" which, in its first eight days of business, grossed $40,000. Rancher Rand thereupon flew East to consider a future job at the New York World's Fair. Instead of a job, she drew a summons. Sharp little Billy Rose had brought suit against her, charging that he originated the title "Sally Rand's Nude Ranch" at the Fort Worth Centennial Exposition in 1936, owns all rights...
...outdone by California, Florida's Hialeah Park followed suit three years ago with the inauguration of the Widener Challenge Cup race, a $50,000 handicap event named after its president, Joseph Early Widener. This year the Widener was scheduled for the same day as the Santa Anita Handicap. Last week these two rich handicaps brought the winter racing season to its climax...
...recent re-election to the Congress presidency of Subhas Chander Bose, Bengal Leftist leader, over the opposition of M. K. Gandhi, the Mahatma withdrew his support from the organization he had long nurtured. Soon most of the other well-known leaders who had worked with Mahatma Gandhi followed suit. For Pandit Nehru, however, there was a difficult choice: he was doctrinally sympathetic toward Mr. Bose but his personal devotion to the Mahatma was intense. He finally chose devotion and, in a bitter letter to Mr. Bose, resigned...