Word: client
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot deals with the struggle of three budding young geniuses a doctor a lawyer and a financier to ward off the wolf till their respective ships come in. The first two have never had a client and the tried. Chubb has only ideas And very excellent ideas they turn out to be. For instance, the doctor's ailing landlady, who has let him keep his room because of professional services rendered, brings in her parrot to he cured of some undetermined malady. Chubb thereupon conceives the brilliant stunt of pawning the parrot to buy breakfast for the three. No sooner...
...this particular moment a taxicab, as taxicab will, ran into another and sprained the lady occupant's ankle. Hence Doctor Hampton and Lawyer Stokes each got his first client and the doctor fell in love. She gave her name as Mary Jane Smith from Elizabeth, N. J., and as that was the identical name the three conspirators had picked at random for the wedding invitations the situation can be seen at a glance...
...that Mr. Warren's connection with the American Sugar Refining Co. had been perfectly proper and only such as he as a lawyer might legitimately undertake, that his connection with that company had ceased nearly 20 years ago and that the fact that he had served well one client was a presumption that he would serve well a new client...
...Chambre, "he is here in spirit." Presently there entered Maitre Moro-Giafferi, the famed French lawyer who defended Caillaux before the Senate when he was condemned to exile for endangering the alliances of France in 1919. He whooped a cry of delight at seeing his old friend and client, rushed at him, clasped him in his arms, pressed him to him, kissed him ecstatically first on one cheek, then on the other...
...objection was found to Mr. Stone. Senator Wheeler, when conducting an investigation of Attorney General Daugherty last spring, had been counterattacked. The Department of Justice had had him indicted in Montana on a charge of having accepted a fee to appear before a Federal agency for a client after becoming a Senator. That case is still hanging fire. Meanwhile, a Senate committee had investigated the charge and declared it base- less. But recently Attorney General Stone announced his intention of placing certain evidence before a grand jury at the Capital, with a view to securing a new indictment against Senator...