Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mark Twain Tonight! The stage is a faded daguerreotype, with a high, old-fashioned lectern, a desk with a topply mound of books and a cut-glass pitcher of water, a McKinley-era chair. Into this setting shuffles the spry, white-maned humorist in the white suit. Involuntary tremors ripple the stiffened fingers, the lower jaw nibbles spasmodically at wisps of tobacco-stained mustache, the shoulders twitch like marionettes in the invisible hands of time. But a pagan glint of eye suggests that this is a life less spent than well spent. Then the voice, cracked but not ruined, speaks...
...right, you can easily train him to get up at 9:30 every time." What about bad habits? Twain is an expert on giving up smoking: "I can give it up whenever I want to. I've done it a thousand times." Why is he wearing a white suit? "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society." Wielding the satiric pinpoint that is sometimes more deadly than the sword, Twain proceeds to let the hot air out of do-gooders, religious humbugs and assorted hokum peddlers. To vary the pace, there are tall tales...
...suit was brought by Klor's, Inc., a small San Francisco appliance store, against its next-door competitor, the big Broadway-Hale (19 stores), and ten appliance makers and eight distributors. Klor's charged that the manufacturers and distributors had conspired to deny it merchandise, except at extremely unfavorable terms, because of pressure brought by Broadway-Hale's using its monopolistic buying power. The defendants did not deny the boycott, but claimed that the public could still buy the same goods at many other San Francisco stores. The District Court thereupon concluded that the suit...
Meeham finally retired, thumbing through his rule book, and Boulris went on to line a scoring single to left. Right fielder Mo Balboni followed suit with a shot to center, sending home the fourth run of the inning. The earlier tallies came on a single by captain John Davis and a throwing error on Charlie Ravenel's grounder, after Mouse Kasarjian had walked and George Harrington had popped a bunt single over the charging second baseman's head...
...need another example of a Southern state's cutting off its nose to spite its face, but last week it had one. When three Negroes won their suit this winter to be admitted to Georgia State College of Business Administration in Atlanta, Governor S. Ernest Vandiver asked the board of regents to freeze new enrollment in the state's university system. The legislature pitched in with a patently ad hoc law setting the top age limit for entering classes in the university system at 21 (all three Negroes are over 21). The result, predictably ridiculous: in the last...