Word: tuxedoed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alfred Lee Loomis, banker (Bonbright & Co.), electro-physicist (effects of high frequency sound waves) had as guest at his splendid private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., Professor Charles Vernon Boys, British physicist who for 26 years has been trying to measure the duration of a lightning flash. His tool has been a camera with two lenses revolving on a disk. At Tuxedo Park he finally and happily measured a flash. It lasted one seven-thousandth of a second...
...dollar bill was discovered tucked away in the pocket of an old tuxedo, and though those in charge have been striving tirelessly to discover the owner and have found any number of candidates, they can find no one able to identify the bill definitely. A brand new suit was unearthed from the pile, but before it could be spirited away by an aspiring colector, a student, showing sings of much gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair, burst into the building and carried off the garment in triumph...
...Eastman Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark., Dutch Henry, southpaw pitcher of the New York Giants, went to a hotel dance in a tuxedo and stiff shirt while his teammates, standing in the doorway, watched...
...shots against J. C. F. Simpson, best of British players. Mr. Pell, playing the greatest game of his eventful racquet history, beat Mr. Simpson three straight games. U. S. took the trophy, 3-2, and the players packed their racquets to proceed to the Gold Racquet tournament at Tuxedo; thence to Boston for the national singles matches...
William Hodge, actor and writer of his own plays, had just come off the stage after the final curtain of his latest play, "Straight Thru the Door", and was sitting in his dressing room attired in the tuxedo coat and white trousers in which he appeared in his last scene. It really am a rather dry proposition for an interview," he remarked in his quiet way to the scribe who was waiting for him, "but I can at least tell you where I got the basis for my play...