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Word: suiting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...sack suit and felt hat the President went to a white-tie horse show at Fort Myer to see Eleanor Roosevelt ride a chestnut gelding called Badger, in the Useful Park or Road Hack Class. Mrs. Roosevelt survived eliminations but by prearrangement received no prize, only flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Duty | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...were heard coming from the proximity of the bridge; witnesses attest to that. And one man contends that he saw Burgess drowning in the water, and directed him to hang on a little longer. Significance is also attached to the fact that the body when found was minus the suit coat...

Author: By F. ROCKWELL Hollands, | Title: Police Drop Burgess Case---Mystery Shrouds Death as Theories Persist | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

...sure you're mistaken, sir. This JUST came in YESTERDAY. You won't find anything newer in the Square. Got lots of demand for this suit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

...vacant look--the kind that permeates the air round a certain species of Freshmen who are already staggering under the vast culture of a whole four months at college. He stood in one of those semicircular mirrors which are the best lure yet devised for selling a fellow a suit-- and he was being shown a suit. He was not being rushed into this affair, though. This gentleman was cagey, and what's more he was in the know as regards clothes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

...result-a choppy extravaganza with many features to suit all tastes and not enough of any of them to suit anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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