Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were offended enough by the screaming dissonances and the way Fremstad brought the horrid head up to the footlights, caressed the matted black hair, kissed the cold lips. But no one was so outraged as Dr. William Stephen Rainsford when he went to breakfast on Monday with his spiritual client, the late John Pierpont Morgan. One public performance of Salome was given that night. Then the elder Morgan asked for a special Metropolitan directors' meeting and the wanton Salome was banished. Not until last week was Herod permitted another birthday...
...Harding this time is an arty and lovelorn lady named Sally Wyndham who after a tragic love affair gives up her baby, goes to Italy as an interior decorator's agent to forget. There she packs up the Renaissance chapel of the Carnini family for a U. S. client, turns homeward, followed by Count Mario Carnini (Tullio Carminati). In a Paris hotel she accidentally stumbles on her son Deedy (Dickie Moore), decides that she wants him back. She gets a job redecorating the home of his guardian Phillip Lawrence (Otto Kruger), sets out to replace his fianc...
...detective, had gladly retired when he married a well-to-do wife. Junketing in Manhattan with his congenial spouse (like all good Hammett characters, Nick is a dogged, early-&-late drinker), he finds himself gradually dragged into an annoying mystery. Clyde Wynant, half-crazy but successful inventor, a onetime client of Nick's, has awkwardly disappeared just when his secretary-mistress has been murdered. Wynant's lawyer, Wynant's remarried ex-wife both want him found, think Nick is the man for the job. But Nick is having too good a time, knows and dislikes the queer...
...defense, the girl's father has been twice tried and condemned to death. He is in the death house at Sing Sing and it is only by pointing a revolver at the real murderer, a gangster who first stole Mrs. Barringer's affections, that Barringer saves his client's life with only 20 seconds to spare...
...water from tumbler to cup, from cup to cup and finally from cup to tumbler. "When it is all over," smiled elderly, benign Mr. Davis, ''you see that not a drop is spilled in the transaction, not even a dollar gained or a penny lost." His client, Isidor Kresel. a lawyer who was also a past master of trial technique, smiled...