Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rope and Chains. It was not that the Prime Minister had gone unduly democratic. Always the courtly squire in the artistocratically rumpled suit, he responded to crowds with a wave that seldom took his arm above his shoulder, and they liked him for not trying to be what he was not. Accompanied by his Lady (who is a daughter of the late ninth Duke of Devonshire, and showed herself pleasantly old-shoeish), Macmillan neatly dodged political questions, mumbled his way through a string of "Splendids," "Jolly goods," and "God bless you alls." Instead of putting people off, his very proper...
...because something is bothering her [and] I wouldn't be surprised if it's because she thinks she's terribly fat." The three-man U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the requested information was material and relevant in Singer Garland's $1,393,333 suit against CBS for libel and breach of contract...
...less than 5,000,000 sq. ft. of floor space. He did it by luring potential tenants with more attractive rents and facilities, sped their entry into Rockefeller Center by buying up their long-term leases in other buildings. Rival landlords fumed, one filed a $10 million damage suit. But tempers cooled and the suit was dropped when Rockefeller Center set up a subleasing office, found tenants for the space from which it had drawn its own clientele...
Sour went the notes in the love song of Louis and Elaine Lorillard, he a tobacco millionheir, they co-founders and sponsors of the splashy, noisy Newport, R.I. annual jazz festival. Filing suit for separation, blonde, pretty Elaine-who met him in Italy during World War II, when he was an Army major, she a Red Cross aide-charged that Louis had locked her out of their Manhattan cooperative apartment and packed her belongings off to a nearby hotel while she was away for a weekend...
...another suit last week, Mrs. Gladys C. Foss of St. Louis, also a widow, charged that she went into the Arthur Murray studio there, intending to take only a few lessons, paid $5 down and soon was persuaded to pay $17,040 for lifetime memberships. But she balked at selling her house to buy more lessons, instead sued for $100,000, charging fraud...