Word: kip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matrimonial law action that involved miscegenation, the New York World despatched a scorching editorial reprimand at the heads of the prosecuting attorneys for ever having taken the case to court (TIME, Dec. 7). The World spoke of "the larger interests" of the attorneys' client (the family of Leonard Kip Rhinelander, of Manhattan); maintained that the "realities of the affair lay in a realm of feeling of which the actors themselves were hardly aware"; protested that since the attorneys were not emotionally involved they should have had the "sympathetic wisdom and practical judgment" to settle the case out of court...
...scored in the press. But perhaps never before in the history of the American Bar has any gentleman of the profession received such a devastating reprimand as that which the New York World, on its editorial page, launched last week at the barristers employed in the suit of Leonard Kip Rhinelander against his wife, Alice Jones...
...However inglorious the role of Leonard Kip Rhinelander in this suit at White Plains, it is his lawyers who cut the poorest figure in the case. For obviously this was an affair that ought to have been settled out of court. No matter what the outcome, there was nothing to be gained by trying the suit; no matter what the Rhinelander family may have thought they were doing when they began the suit, good lawyers, lawyers devoted to the larger interests of their clients, lawyers conscious of their responsibility as members of the court, would have found ways to make...
...forces of the Crown were warring with the Colonists, it happened that one evening General Putnam at the Battery (New York) was obliged to join General Washington on Harlem Heights. Failure to meet this obligation might have meant annihilation of the rebel army. Unfortunately the British were encamped at Kip's Bay, half way up the island, and it was necessary to distract their attention while Putnam made his march that evening. A certain Mrs. Murray undertook the task, gave a party, and kept all the enemy generals so drunk that Putnam's men slid by unnoticed...
Grove Patterson of The Toledo Blade protested against the indiscriminate publication of details in scandal cases, citing the recent cases of Percy Stickney Grant, the blackmailed rajah, Leonard Kip Rhinelander...