Word: sues
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last second-year Ames Competition case of the season will be tried this evening at 8 o'clock in Austin Hall, when the Ames-Gray fictitious clients sue the imaginary constituents of the Scott Club...
...role of the Madonna, and I shall play it. Voila tout! I shall certainly not play on alternate nights with Lady Diana, and when the curtain rings up on the first night I shall be on the stage. If Mr. Gest insists that Lady Diana play, I shall sue him for $100,000. I have already spoken to my attorney and I have a good case. That would be a good fight, wouldn't it-almost as good as Carpentier and Dempsey...
...curious to note how much Mr. Meiklejohn is able to convey by his wording. His inaugural address is a rhetorical model, a perfect illustration of the use of topic sentence and so forth; and to a certain extent an illustration of how stupid the sue of mechanical rules alone can be. The baccalaureate sermon, on the other hand, is replete with dignity and yet grace; while the prophecy of the next hundred years is filled with almost poetic fire. Almost all through the book, except in the inaugural address, there is a lilt to the words that is akin...
...Eight Fifth Avenue (Manhattan) art dealers debated whether to sue Dr. Van Dyke for " collective libel." The matter was temporarily dropped but may be taken up when Messrs. F. Kleinberger and Roland F. Knoedler, and Sir Joseph Duveen, leading dealers, return from Europe. Dr. Van Dyke fears no action...
...frightened at the right places. Nevertheless, Miriam Doyle is pleasing as the courageous and attractive young heiress; and Walter Regan, who has a fairly difficult part as the wavering, somewhat ridiculous schoolboy lover of Miss West, and the official humorist, is one of the outstanding players. As Cousin Sue, who feels "in duty bound" to tell everything she knows in a rather disagreeable fashion, Florence Huntington is so convincing that one hesitates to praise her; her part seems too natural to be acting. The other characters are taken well enough; one feels no particular lack nor any unusual talent...