Word: client
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge offices, however, each man takes complete charge of the office for one afternoon or evening every other week, the office hours being from 4 to 6 o'clock and 7 to 9 o'clock every day except Saturday and Sunday. Each new client that comes in during that time is the client of the man then on duty and it is his office to follow up the case until it is settled. Each week the board of directors meets to discuss all cases which have come up, and to offer advice...
Last week Mr. Lyle's attorneys declared that the infirmities of their client had caused a partial cessation of the blood circulation in his brain, this in turn causing him to act as he did toward Demonstrator William Weaver. They asked that the charges against their client be dismissed. Soon District Attorney Albert Fach announced that he was investigating the case thoroughly, intimated that he would approve dismissal...
...will say, that is not many.) The mistake is, that my chief employed is Sir Thomas Lipton. I have a great admiration for Sir Thomas Lipton, He is a very good friend of mine, but he is not my employer and I have nothing to do with him. The client for whom I visit the United States every year is the Indian Tea Association of London which represents all the growers of Indian Tea. I am sure you will not mind making this correction in your paper because the tea which I try to encourage the people of this country...
...silver tongue as "The Socialist Demosthenes," several times retained as an attorney by the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania. For an hour the statesman-lawyer and the onetime prince laid their heads together. Then M. Paul-Bancour instituted suit for libel in behalf of his new client against the producers of The Merry Widow. To newsgatherers M. Danilo explained passionately: "There is a 'Prince Danilo' in that film. . . . Gentlemen, I am Prince Danilo. There is no other! ... I am unspeakably pained to see myself travestied by a cheap cinema star* as staggering drunk through the Bois...
...notions through Connecticut when he came across the lock stitch sewing machine that Elias Howe (1819-67) had invented in 1846. Peddler Singer made some modifications, upon which he got a patent in 1852. There were law suits, in which Edward A. Clark, Manhattan lawyer, represented Singer. Lawyer and client formed the Singer corporation. Mr. Hopper was their bookkeeper at $20 a week. To him they came. Said Singer: "Clark won't let me be president, and I swear I won't let him." Said Clark: "Our president ought to be a married man. The office requires some...