Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hitch Your Wagon (by Bernard C. Schoenfeld; Pearson & Baruch, producers). Night of this comedy's Washington try-out opening, the theatre manager received the following telegram from a Hollywood lawyer named Henry C. Huntington: "From report it appears Hitch Your Wagon burlesques my client Barrymore as well as Elaine Barrie. I hereby warn you that I will hold you strictly responsible, if this play is produced, on behalf of my client...
...that time old Senator Sharon was dead of worry, and Terry was a lonely widower. The lawyer soon married his beauteous client. They made a formidable pair. During her divorce suit she had made everybody nervous by fingering a pearl-handled revolver in her handbag while a court examiner was hearing testimony. "I can hit a fourbit piece nine times out of ten," she remarked, where upon the unfortunate examiner adjourned the hearing, appealed to the court for protection. When the Sharon heirs brought suit in Federal circuit court to cancel Sarah Althea's claims, the Terrys took front...
...died in office. Root refused because he was in the midst of his job of giving new governments to Puerto Rico and the Philippines, of reorganizing the War Department on its modern basis with a General Staff. Of this work Root remarked: "I made the Army my client." If Root had been a candidate, Theodore Roosevelt might not have become President when McKinley was shot, and Theodore Roosevelt's distant cousin might not have been started on a political career, the fortunate possessor of a great name...
...expenses are very small. . . . The barber shop below my office contains two church pews from an abandoned church [which are] comfortable. ... If the telephone rings upstairs, or a client walks up the stairway, I sit up, adjust my tie and commence work...
...much interested in anybody who is 'lawing it.' . . . I had a large case recently before a justice of the peace and jury of six, in which I earned $10. The trial was held at 8 p. m. in the social room of the local fire house. My client was suing for $6.50 damages ... to his automobile. At least 100 spectators were present. [A city lawyer and I] fought our case amid boos and cheers from the audience until 11 p. m. The jury brought in a verdict for $3.50 in favor of my client, which was indeed...