Word: suits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International Ladies Garment Workers Union and the Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit & Skirt Manufacturers Inc. signed a 36-clause agreement which binds the employes to give full work for their pay and the employers to have no business relation with non-union shops...
Ladder-If the 20th Century does not suit, transmigrate to the 25th...
...richest man in Europe, was barred last week from entering the Bellevue Casino at Biarritz, France, because, though in evening dress myself, I was accompanied by a secretary not formally garbed. Doubling my fist I made contact with the loutish doorman's jaw, passed within. When he instituted suit against me for assault next day, I retained to defend me the celebrated barrister, onetime Finance Minister de Monzie of France. My extravagances include the ownership of a fleet of airplanes which bring to me, wherever I may be, fresh caviar from Russia, poulards from Toulouse and other delicacies...
...green suit, two strands of pearls, many bangles and a slave anklet, 118 sinuous pounds of Mary Garden, Chicago diva, returned last week to the U. S. Newsgatherers ignored her wrinkles, flattered her appearance and she said goodness, yes, that was what came of going without dinners, especially gorgeous ones ("Lord, how I love good food!"); of not smoking or drinking; and of swimming daily in the Mediterranean, with no bathing suit and no company save two police dogs. She told her famed escape-from-a-shark story (TIME, Sept. 13), patted her bobbed hair and apropos of Maria Jeritza...
...Manhattan's summer Stadium concerts, led the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra in a brilliant opening of the current season. Tall, dark, magnetic, he gave careful, rhythmic reading to Bach's Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue; continued with Brahms's First Symphony, in a full-throated interpretation; was clever, cacophonous, to suit Strauss's Don Juan; ended with his now familiar spellbinding performance of Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun. Again the city congratulated itself on the musicianly foresight and executive powers of Adella Prentiss Hughes, first U. S. woman organizer and manager of a symphonic orchestra...