Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Attorney at Law Alton...
...dressed as though he had been to Eton and Oxford. In the growing success of his early days on the stage, he wore a slight, sharp mustache; his sloping shoulders and handsome, expressive hands gave him distinction. He has been in pictures for 15 years, now plays the district attorney or the husband oftener than the hero, gets fewer letters than younger stars, but has established his reputation as one of the most skillful actors in Hollywood. He is married, six feet tall. Some of his good pictures were The Doctor's Secret, The Divine Lady, Sorrel...
...straight," he can investigate her also for clues to a crime which he suspects her of having committed. Al Draper decoys both of them eventually to his roulette and poker establishment from which, by means of a raid, they are hustled to the office of the district attorney. Here, in a prolonged questioning Mazie abuses the interlocutor and the assembled company with acid witticisms. After her snarlings are concluded, the audience is pleased to discover that both girls, though fairly bad, are innocent of a murder whose author, most suitably, commits off-stage suicide...
...pledge by the power company to the Kentucky State Park Commission to develop the property about Cumberland Falls into a park. Kentucky's only Republican high official. Governor Flem D. Sampson, had engineered the Cumberland Falls deal, had signed the contract. Kentucky's Demo-cratic Attorney-General James William Cammack cried tritely: "What a crime . . . that the rights of Kentucky might be bartered away for a mess of pottage...
Some grape-growing industrialists resent the activity of vineyardists who sell their juice for winemaking. To the Federal Farm Board last week they sent as their representative Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant U. S. Attorney-General, to explain such "questionable practices," to try to induce the Board to withhold loans to growers who attempt to evade the intent of Prohibition. Farm Board Chairman Legge explained that his Board had nothing to do with Prohibition...