Word: sues
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a man sat on an Indiana front porch, stuck his thumbs in his waistcoat as is his habit, put his straw hat on the back of his head. Grey-mustachioed, wrinkle-eyed Tom Taggart, owner of French Lick Springs and Democratic boss of Indiana meditated: To sue or not to sue...
...Caraway: "The Senator is a very able lawyer. Can my friend Pepper now sue the people who got his money and did not deliver, and recover? He ought to have some kind of forum where he can get his money's worth...
...Harrison: "To paraphrase a legal term, may I say, 'One who comes into court must come with clean hands.' But in Mellon he has a friend who knows how to sue. My friend from Michigan [Mr. Couzens] will agree to that...
...Henry N. Gladstone, to refute the slurs cast upon the name of the celebrated statesman, their late father, by "an insolent varlet, a professional mud-spatterer, a cowardly bootlicker" named Captain Peter Wright in his recent book, Portraits and Criticisms (TIME, Aug. 3, COMMONWEALTH). "Why don't they sue the stinking reptile?" such people have exclaimed in the vehemence of their sympathy. "Why don't they put their foot on him in court and crunch him into a smear? Why don't they...
...named Robards. He was cruel and they separated. Later, word came that he had secured a divorce through the legislature of Virginia. Thereupon Jackson married her. It developed a couple of years later that the divorce had never been granted. Robards had merely been granted the right to sue for divorce. He finally did sue, on grounds of adultery, and got his decree. Then the Jacksons were married again. This was the cause of many scandalous attacks on the Jacksons. It led him into the Dickinson duel and other troubles and quarrels...