Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That droning--an airplane? Japs? Germans? Reds? It swells and fades, angry, important, businesslike. Ah, a wasp, or is it a hornet, zooms gracefully through the window and roars headlong into the closet. Sudden silence. Probably sampling the various gravy and beer spots on the Vagabond's suit. That'll hold him for a while--maybe kill him. The Vagabond relaxes: let's see, history review today. Damn, action again. The wasp-hornet breezes out of the closet, squats on the bowl of a pipe, sharpens up his stinger with his hind legs, hums contentedly to himself...
...integral a part of baseball folklore as Casey's, invited the latest Maryland celebrity to stage a revival of Casey-at-the-bat as a prologue to a night game with the Jersey City Giants. It rained on "Casey Night." Dan Casey, neatly garbed in a business suit and Oriole cap, stepped gingerly to the plate, wrapped his gnarled fingers round a bat for the first time in 40 years. From 2,000 throats or more there rose a lusty yell as Oriole Coach Rogers Hornsby, recent manager of the St. Louis Browns, wound up for the special strikeout...
...Cummings last week said that henceforth he would issue frequent statements covering: 1) conditions in an industry which he thinks are in restraint of trade; 2) economic results he hopes to get from an anti-trust proceeding; 3) reason he chose a particular procedure-such as criminal prosecution, civil suit, consent decree...
...Suit was filed against 91 defendants by Arthur Atwood Ballantine, onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury, now Continental's trustee under 77B. Charging a conspiracy to capture several investment trusts partly and indirectly bought with their own assets, Trustee Ballantine asked an accounting and return of $3,300,000 to Continental. Defendants included Vincent E. Ferretti, George H. Clayton, Phillip A. Frear, S. Leo Solomont, James A. Frear, George J. Mitchell Jr., George H. Clayton Jr., Thomas W. Morris, Ralph H. Robb, Fred A. Ross, Chester A. Dunham, Paine, Webber & Co., brokers; J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp.; four principal...
...Simultaneously the Oklahoma Corporation Commission issued an emergency order cutting allowables for the rest of May 81,000 barrels daily to 405,000. Kansas set May daily allowables at 160,000 barrels though at the week end the other States in the Interstate Compact had not yet followed suit...