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Chipper as a grey squirrel among sleek black tabby cats, dynamic Guest-of-Honor Dawes had turned up at the luncheon-tendered by the Travel Association of Great Britain & Ireland-wearing a "tropic weave" grey business suit of hard, aggressive cut. Every other guest of consequence sweltered, of course, in correctest English morning clothes. The setting was hoar, historic Vintners' Hall, built just after the Great Fire of London in 1666, sombre, immemorial citadel of England's solemn wine trade. To talk loudly or to refuse a cup of wine in such a place would be to most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Below the Belt! | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...last-minute blemish on the scene was abruptly removed when Secretary Avenol spied a disobedient British correspondent in a checkered suit, pushed him into an alcove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Surprise Visit | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Dress 8 oz. Suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Troublesome Buttons | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Artist Decker then displayed the portrait in a Hollywood art store window with the legend: ''James Cruze-in Prison for Debt." The Cruze suit followed. Said Artist Decker: "When a man employs an artist to paint a portrait, it is up to the artist to do his worst, as he sees best. If Cruze wanted some wishy-washy, sloppy, sentimental portrait of himself, he could have had a photograph taken or hired a two-bit painter to do it. I gave him a work of interpretative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cruze Sues | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Hollywood heard that the suit would be settled out of court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cruze Sues | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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