Word: suits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Divorce Suit Rumored. Emily Charlotte (Lillie) Langtry, Lady De Bathe, 75, stage beauty of a generation ago; and her husband, Sir Hugo Gerald De Bathe, 56, of Monte Carlo. The "Jersey Lily," friend of King Edward VII and many another famed Victorian, emerged from a decade of retirement last year (TIME, Feb. 7, 1927) to deny charges of intimacy with Premier Gladstone, made by Author Peter Wright...
...this jaunty Irish farce. All of the corned-beef-and-cabbage characters out of George McManus's comic strip are here; Maggie and her famed rolling pin, Annie, Dinty Moore, Ellen. Jiggs (J. Farrell MacDonald) grew suddenly rich, possessed a Long Island estate. Jiggs wouldn't wear his dinner suit. Jiggs was hit on the head. Jiggs wouldn't meet the Count. Jiggs simulated suicide. Then everyone realized that Society is hollow, that homely virtues are best...
Clad in only a thin bathing suit, Eells walked over the bridge to the Weld Boathouse and, to the utter amazement of crew officials there, plunged right in. A delighted crowd of several hundred students greeted him on the other bank, while the Larz Anderson Bridge was jammed with automobiles of other spectators...
...late in the morning of that day that the play was to be honored by the presence of the President. Mr. Polkinhoru, manager of the theatre, immdiately asked the printer to alter the bill and to add a patriotic verse. This was impossible, but some playbills were changed to suit the manager's demand, and of these several reprints have been made. All the steps in the changing of this bill are shown in the collection. Two copies of the playbills distributed in the theatre the night of the assassination are in the collection, and are exceedingly rare...
...prologue and epilogue to the play take place in the present, and present some excellent dancing, and a general tempo which in most ways suit the taste of the average musical comedy public better than the swinging, soft atmosphere of the body of the play. Nevertheless, the music throughout it distinctly tuneful, and considerably above the average of the usual offerings. On the whole, by no means an exciting evening, but a pleasant one. In spite of the camouflaging effects of crinolines, the chorus established itself as one of the most restful the eye could demand...