Word: suits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past. And the attentive observer had many free and fair chances to laugh. Unfortunately, however, he had also much occasion to groan. For one thing the speakers for Yale established so complete a monopoly upon the humor of the evening that the Department of Justice might well bring suit against them for a combination in restraint of trade. Surely it is a plausible theory that the editors of the Lampoon had been bribed by Yale not to suggest, in preparation for the debate a single risible notion of which the Harvard team could make capital...
...noted scientist recently much in the public eye*. His experiments and prophecies concerning ectogenesis (laboratory birth) long gave the impression that he believed birth by woman would eventually be done away with. It was therefore with consternation that his friends saw him named as corespondent in an uncontested divorce suit last December. At once the "Sex Viri" of Cambridge ousted him from his readership. His trial last week was an appeal from their ruling...
Last week Madame Jeritza filed suit against the Cohens. Her full name, she explained, is "Maria Popper de Podhragy Jeritza, widely known throughout the civilized world." Could the name "La Jeritza" mean anyone else? Did not every Frenchman, Italian, Spaniard, use the definite article "La" to refer to her, the supreme, the only Jeritza, pre-eminent soprano of four continents? And this name the 'Messrs. Cohen had usurped. They had put it, over the trade name of "Cohen Bros.," on two kinds of box. One kind contained some dismal cheroots affectionately known as "Little Cigarros." The other contained larger cheroots...
Under his administration the Tariff Commission obtained great influence and prestige chiefly because of its non-partisanship. With the advent of the Republican Administration, however the composition of the commission was altered to suit the high tariff requirements set forth in the Republican platforms of 1920 and 1924. It has lost not only its unbiased character, but, according to Professor Taussig, something of its efficiency as well...
Belle wastes ten years trying to win enough at the table to pay for her daughter's education. 1926 finds her at Monte Carlo and Lois a very entrancing young girl. "Count Feodor returns to see the daughter, a suit naturally not attractive to the mother. Luckily a young man from Grand Rapids Furniture, as he calls it, turns up to outrival the "homme du monde" and the story ends happily when Colonel Fleming, friend of the Grand Rapids youth, saves Belle from suicide and begs forgiveness for his prewar wrath...