Word: deceits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense of life, in that they attribute to human actions the completely decisive role in the difference between salvation and damnation. Ryder knew that a man could commit irretrievable error, and that in the face of this fact, all others were secondary." Tartly intolerant of humbug, laziness, stupidity and deceit, Ryder thought that "Any man who does a hard thing well is automatically respectable and worthy of respect...
...Patterson estate. When the news reached Washington over the A.P., Times-Herald executives moved fast. The seven who had inherited the paper already faced a fight for it; Countess Felicia Gizycka, Mrs. Patterson's daughter, was contesting the will, charging that it had been obtained by "fraud and deceit" as Cissie Patterson was not of "sound mind" when she drafted it. (There was also talk that the seven heirs were already fighting among themselves, too.) And Porter's personal papers might contain vital evidence in the case. He had reportedly made a record of all his conversations with...
...Morning is one more novel about little foxes-post-bellum Southern variety. Years back, old Daniel Armstrong (of the hardy and gallant Armstrongs) had been cheated out of a large inheritance of land by Simon Gerrard (of the grasping, industrious Gerrards). One family blights the land with its deceit and vulgarity; the other hopelessly defends the old code...
...life. But the estate totaled better than $16 million (the Times-Herald was left to seven executives). Felicia protested to the court that her mother was not of "sound mind and memory" when she made the will, and that it had been "procured from Mrs. Patterson by fraud and deceit exercised upon her by some person or persons unknown...
...Eaton used the suit as an occasion for calling the whole thing off. In its 5,219 pages of testimony, SEC found "information which tends, if true, to show that" Eaton was behind Masterson's protest. To the SEC, it looked like a case of "fraud and deceit...