Word: suits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...master dines frugally and sips sparingly, but he is no total teetotaler. Purring from the garage comes either Mr. Kellogg's own Pierce Arrow or the Secretary of State's Packard. The small man who steps briskly in always carries a cane, and always wears a dark suit or morning clothes-but without a valet the clothes are seldom newly pressed. Speeding to the State Department, the master is perhaps a little sad to find that his right hand man-R. E.†Olds-is gone. As Under Secretary of State (1927-28), Mr. Olds was well-nigh...
Staccato footfalls beat a brisk tattoo through the city room of the New York World, down the long rows of worn old desks. A big, vociferous typhoon with red hair, blue shirt, trim tailored suit, swept with a round-the-world stride through the office, greeted a dozen reporters by their first names and vanished through a far door, leaving a strange quiet 'behind him. Herbert Bayard Swope, Executive Editor of the World and genius of its flying columns for eight years, was leaving...
...from ethics to economics, the Ward Line began a price-cutting struggle. Already 10% lower than the Caronia's schedule, first-class fares were slashed 25% more, to $120, round trip. The United Fruit Co., operating four ships, and the Munson Line, planning only one winter trip, followed suit. Cunard rates remained at $175, gave no indication of meeting the unprecedented cut. But Cunard threatened to bring suit against the Shipping Board, charging illegal competition...
When a prisoner's term has been served, he gets a $12 suit of clothes, a railroad ticket and $10, along with the words: "Make good...
Anne Nichols, playwright, took the witness stand, last week in Manhattan, in her $3,000,000 suit against the Universal Pictures Corp. for alleged pirating of her play, Abie's Irish Rose, in a Universal movie called The Cohens and the Kellys. Specimen questions & answers...