Word: blennerhassett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steals a London stockbroker's dignity steals practically his purse. Last week the City chuckled at the plight of William Lewis Rowland Paul Sebastian Blennerhassett, wealthy Throgmorton Street stockbroker, addicted like all his ilk to eating lobster salad at Pimm's. In King's Bench Division before Hon. Mr. Justice Branson, outraged Broker Blennerhassett brought suit for libel against a vendor of the silly jerk-on-a-string tops called yo-yos. The yo-yo man had advertised that a man named Blennerhassett had gone stark, raving mad from diddling with...
...From the afternoon that advertisement was published," wailed Plaintiff Blennerhassett. "I was jeered to such an extent that I had to leave the Stock Exchange. I tried to make a re-entry later but the position became intolerable...
Whimsical, the advertisement which blighted Broker Blennerhassett began: "Take warning of the fate of Mr. Blennerhassett, as worthy a citizen as ever ate lobster at Pimm's or holed a putt at Walton Heath. 'Sound Man,' they said in Throgmorton Street...
...only Blennerhassett in Throgmorton Street," testified Broker Blennerhassett. whose lawyers emphasized that he is a War hero, holder of the D. S. O. "A letter addressed simply 'Blennerhassett. Throgmorton Street' would reach me and I used to lunch regularly at Pimm...
...Unfortunately," snapped Broker Blennerhassett...