Word: deceits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Passenger Reiner had broken his promise to the airship operators, that his contract to send messages was morally void. Last week the New York State Court of Appeals upheld N. A. N. A.'s defense, passed lightly over the agency's part in the alleged "fraud & deceit" thus: "The plaintiff's complaint that the defendant treated him as he had treated others falls upon deaf ears; the law is silent; it has nothing...
...them the $1,000,000 they spent in legal fees and other expenses of the original action. Last week they were denied this in the District Court of Appeals by Referee John T. Scott who held that, despite a lower court's ruling, there was neither fraud nor deceit in the merger negotiations, that the merger contract was legal, that therefore Frances T. Wick et al. must pay their own expenses. While proponents of the merger hailed this as a vindication, Frances T. Wick et al. prepared an appeal...
...falls in love with vampirish Fedora, prophesies her husband's death. Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time. Prophet Trux, for vanity's sake and feline Fedora, for caution's, hide the discrepancy. On the strength of their mutual deceit they become lovers...
...dramatic reviewers of the more conservative papers, as well as their colleagues, the book-reviewers. These men generally resist the more rhapsodical advertising and seldom betray their public. From their writings, however, are extracted such fragments as are susceptible of favorable interpretation out of context: and thus the deceit grows apace...
When Counsel Seabury heard of this he angrily accused the opposition lawyers of "trickery and deceit," announced that Dr. Doyle was being protected "by tactics of the Tweed Ring." Meantime, Counsel Seabury learned of a certain telephone call which had been put through to Lake Placid a few hours prior to Justice Sherman's order, a call from the Manhattan apartment of Tammany's crafty Boss Curry. When news of this got out Manhattan newspapers pictured a worried Tammany with its back against a closed door from behind which came the querulous voice of Horse Doctor Doyle saying...