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...Counsellor at Law (Universal). George Simon (John Barrymore) is a talented criminal lawyer, happy in his profession but less fortunate in his home life. This set of circumstances provokes him, before the picture is over, to make a suicidal dash for the window of his deluxe office. A conservative rival has threatened to have him disbarred for framing an alibi for a petty thief ten years before. Simon has thwarted this move by discovering the rival's mistress and illegitimate child but his triumph is spoiled by the actions of Mrs. Simon (Doris Kenyon). Instead of staying with...
...students have ever had a more devoted friend and counsellor than those who had the good fortune to work under Professor Porter at the Fogg Museum and elsewhere. Although an exceedingly hard worker with great singleness of purpose, he always found time to make friends and help those with whom he worked. No one will ever know how many students received from him valuable advice and often monetary assistance, the latter frequently given anonymously...
Heinrich, enormously fat, drunken, gluttonous Duke of Liegnitz, was a contemporary of England's Queen Elizabeth, but he never gave her a thought until his last legs were wobbly. Only thing that kept him from drinking his duchy dry and getting himself kicked out was his timidly pessimistic Counsellor, Schweinichen. But when the Duke, for a joke, tried to get his ugly wife to sit at the same table with his practically naked mistress, it was too much. The Duchess would not; the Duke slapped her; she went to the Holy Roman Emperor and told on him. So Duke...
...nothing) Johnson of Chicago, to be a U. S. District Judge (Attorney Johnson jailed Gangster Capone and nine other racketeers); Ernest B. Thomas of Rushville, Ind. to be a member of the Federal Farm Board (Rushville is the hometown of Republican Senate Leader Watson); Norman Armour, now Counsellor of Embassy at Paris, to be Minister to Haiti (a career diplomat, Mr. Armour diplomatically announced: "I'm as pleased to go to Haiti as I am sorry to leave Paris"). ¶ For his 58th birthday, President Hoover received: 1) a cake baked aboard the new S. S. Manhattan...
...Tabor, owner of Aiken Preparatory School for boys. Principal Tabor moved the school to its present site at Whiskey Road & Gin Lane. He expanded the plant with tennis courts, gymnasium, outdoor swimming pool. A Cambridge man, brother-in-law of Sir John Broderick, onetime commercial counsellor at the British Embassy in Washington, Principal Tabor invested Fermata with a strongly British atmosphere...