Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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England is nicer in lots of ways than Mexico, so much nicer that last week the civilian leader of the latest Mexican Revolution, Senor Don Gilberto Valenzuela, must have devoutly wished himself back at the Court of St. James's, strutting again in silk knee breeches with a cordon across his chest as Mexican Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary. Instead he was desperately striving in the state of Sonora, first to bolster up civilian support for the army of his chief-of-staff, General Gonzalo Escobar, and second with the forlorn project of despatching to President Herbert Hoover a request...
...only daughter of Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. Fröken Irmelin Nansen, daughter of Polar Explorer Fridtjof Xansen, was Norway's premier bridesmaid. The others: Swedish, Elsa Steuch, Alfhild Ekelund, Madeleine Carleson; Norwegian, Ranghild Fearnley, Elizabeth Broch. Wedel Jarlsberg. Froken Jarlsberg is the daughter of the great Court Chamberlain, and Froken Ekelund's father was the late fabulously rich Swedish industrialist. Gunnar Ekelund. The pale and puffy blue stuff of which all eight dresses were made was the gift of Princess Martha, but the dressmaking was not contracted or paid...
...Manhattan, Dr. I. Mortimer Smokier, dentist, pulled and pulled at the teeth of Mrs. Molly Blumlein. In 17 pulls he got 17 teeth, but none the right one. Now Dentist Smokier, by court decision, must pay $16,000 to Mrs. Blumlein, and $3,000 to Husband Blumlein for interference with his wife's duties...
...Charles Evans Hughes was paid $75,000 for explaining to the U.S. Supreme Court why more than 5 cents should be charged for a New York subway ride...
...must to all combinations in restraint of trade, divorce came, in 1911, to 33 units of the great Standard Oil trust. Since then, various units have reputedly flirted and dickered, one with another. But there have been no remarriages, strictly forbidden by U. S. Supreme Court decree...