Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it was unable to understand how airport officials remained oblivious of the action. But Eastern Air, whose hard-bitten General Manager Eddie Rickenbacker sped to the spot, presently issued a bitter statement completely exonerating the flight personnel and putting the blame squarely on the power company. A damage suit seemed highly probable...
Mussolini, no altruist, was clearly hoping that he would be properly rewarded for his friendliness. He would like nothing better than for the British Government to recognize his Ethiopian conquest, then to persuade the League of Nations to follow suit. As the week progressed these hopes looked less & less wild...
...Suit, Firmly embedded in U. S. folklore is the idea that Gangsterism got its seed and start in the circulation feuds of Chicago newspapers before the War. Last week rich, hardboiled Max Annenberg, now circulation director of the New York News (biggest in the U. S.), pre-War circulation manager in Chicago for Hearst and then the Tribune, took steps to clear his name of having had any part in fostering Chicago rough stuff. His lawyers began a libel suit for $250,000 against Burton Rascoe, author, and Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., publishers of the book, Before I Forget...
...minutes of fumbling around. In the afternoon he descended again, returned with no report. Far into the night spectators amused themselves at a "Monster Dance" beneath flickering lamps. Next day attendance fell off, but Diver Brown descended again. When an air valve jammed in the helmet of his diving suit, he popped unexpectedly to the surface, still having seen nothing. By this time the crowds had melted completely away and so, presently, did Diver Brown...
...this particular morning Artist Woolf arrived at a Senator's office promptly at 9 a. m. as agreed. The Senator wearing a white suit came in at 9:30, apologized for being late. They joked about the weather, arranged chairs to get the right light. Artist Woolf squinted through his horn-rimmed glasses, went to work while the Senator first smoked, then chewed a cigar. Looking down on them was a large oil painting of the Senator's wife dressed in blue; scattered around the walls were some WPA art works...