Word: client
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...murder has been done. A lawyer, famous chiefly because he has never defended a case in which he is not convinced of the innocence of his client, takes the case. The wretched, half crazy husband of a lovely woman has been killed. She is charged. Deep in the play the lawyer discovers that she is guilty, despite her insistence to the contrary. To complicate matters he is in love with her. His problem, then, is whether to go through with the case or by dropping it virtually insure her conviction by his very act. He carries on and wins...
...plays in this adventure a young wife who suspects her lawyer husband of certain indiscretions with an actress client. It seems that the night before the income tax returns were due he sat up with this client fathoming her finances until all hours. Two well meaning bachelor friends of his set about to prove to his wife that it is possible for a man and woman to spend a night together in a house without alarming developments. To this end they feed her much champagne and she falls asleep in the bachelors' library...
There was a fluttering of feet. A bevy of waiters issued fanlike from the pantry, pattered each to his client. "Sir," said each, "can no cook steak, no cook everything, fire died, very too much water...
Federal Judge George M. Bourquin pronounced sentence upon Gordon Campbell, onetime client of Senator
...railroad accident on the Boston to New York line--these are the first clues. The young wife has been deprived of her husband's company at the outset of her honeymoon, while Howell, pretending that he has a very important legal task to execute for a client in Cleveland, goes off to Boston to double-cross for an indiscreet friend. Mrs. Pembroke's son Ned, a hard-hearted Vera who has the usual incriminating letters and ideas of their proper...