Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marriage Annulled. Helen Wainwright Holland, famed swimmer, married with a 10? wedding ring in April (because her theatre manager desired publicity), from one George Leonard Holland, trap drummer. She charged fraud. "My marriage was only a joke...
...Thee" to the same tune as "God Save the King." He reminds England that President Wilson said "too proud to fight" to Mexico, not Europe, and that the man (Horatio Bottomley), who reported that Americans were wearing "We Won the War" buttons, was later jailed by England for another fraud. The vexed matter of debt collection is skillfully elucidated following an esthetic discourse on skyscrapers, of which the "stone and steel logic" is shown to be the reality behind the Uncle Shylock myth. The soul within the logic comes through in the eyes of Manhattan office workers...
...have perpetrated a heartless fraud. . . . The name of a man who has adorned our English literature has been dishonored...
...Messrs. Nutt and Hefley were held for grand jury action charged with committing a fraud on the public, issuing fraudulent advertising...
...Fraud!" cried Imhofians and took the case to court...