Word: suede
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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> When the Louis Budds inspected their new house in Tampa, Fla., they noticed a minor flaw: there was no water fit to drink. They sued the sellers of the house, only to be swamped with a tidal wave of legal argument. The 49-page defense brief, according to Florida Appellate...
The WPA also inspired some awful jokes (sample: a WPA worker sued the Government when the shovel he was leaning on broke). Still it gave eating money in hard times to some Americans who later became famous, including Actors Orson Welles and Burt Lancaster and Artists Jackson Pollock and Willem...
Alfred said last month that the Starr Book Shop had been responsible for a "breach of contract" when the salesman refused to sell him valuable letters written by Virginia Woolf that were inside a book he intended to buy. He sued for value of the letters.
Vlasta refused to go along when the rest of her family fled or to join them later because, she now says, she did not want to leave her home and country. She also claims she was advised by Czech legal authorities that she would be able to get her children...
The elder Gulbenkian, as miserly as his son was profligate, employed Nubar for a time without salary. This arrangement ended in 1939 after Nubar billed the company $4.50 for a lunch of chicken in tarragon jelly, which he ate at his desk. His father refused to allow the expense, and...