Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Father Taillefer's arrest. Said the Archbishop: "I want justice to take its normal course." His only request was that Defendant Taillefer not be allowed to wear a priest's garb in court. In his jail cell, Arthur Taillefer was handed an ill-fitting brown gabardine suit, took it without protest. He wore it when he went to trial...
Congressmen Murphy set the week's high mark in sightseeing-he saw the Falange headquarters and General Francisco Franco. Nattily togged out in a grey nylon shirt and grey suit, Murphy arrived at the guarded gate of El Pardo in a yellow government car, and was welcomed by the Caudillo in a blue civilian suit...
...hair. The effect, said her friend, was rather too exotic for an 18-year-old and somehow she "scared the boys away." Nevertheless, in 1946 Toodie married William Simpson, the son of a Chicago millionaire. Last year they were divorced. Now a sleek, mature 26 who "can afford a suit or two from Schiaparelli once a year but that's all," Toodie is no longer so scary. In any case, says her fiance, "U.S. girls are more lovely to look at than British girls...
...library, the Wellesley girl has added T. S. Eliot, Sartre and Freud. In her closet she keeps a suit of red winter underwear, three "dressy" dresses and at least one evening gown. For the sake of her prestige, she must never let a week go by without at least one date (freshmen get only 15 "1 o'clocks and overnights" the first semester). Those without weekend dates often prefer to leave campus, for "the awfulness of not having a date when everyone else does," says Dean Lucy Wilson, "hangs over them constantly...
Ever since the Department of Justice slapped Du Pont with an antitrust suit last June, the corporation has been quietly taking its case to the country. Its executives have made speech after speech at luncheons and dinners. Last week, as he rose to address 300 newsmen at Washington's National Press Club, Du Pont President Crawford H. Greenewalt got a chance to let the Justice Department have it at close range. Just seven places down the speaker's table sat Assistant Attorney General Herbert Bergson, boss of the Justice Department's antitrust division...