Word: sues
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peter B. Kyne, writer of sea stories: " I instructed my attorneys to sue the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation for $100,000, charging damage to my pen reputation in the film Homeward Bound, which the Corporation advertised as an 'adaptation' of my short story, The Light to Leeward. I called their film 'a picture for morons.' I called their perversion of my story a betrayal of the public. I added: 'Jesse L. Lasky wouldn't know ethics if he met them in his grog. I hazard the opinion that he never heard of the word...
...second wife. Except for seven years engaged in law practice in Richmond, Dr. Tyler has spent his life as an educator. He was President of William and Mary College from 1898 until his resignation in 1919. His first marriage took place 45 years ago. A widower, he married Miss Sue Ruffin, 35, great granddaughter of the man who fired the first gun at Fort Sumter. Dr. Tyler and his bride will live at "The Den," Holdcroft...
Married. Dr. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, 70, son of John Tyler, Tenth President of the U. S., to Miss Sue Ruffirt, 35, at Richmond, Va. (See page...
...Sue MacManamy makes a rather appealing heroine and is especially good when called upon by the author for tears. Since he requires her to weep fairly consistently through the last three acts she has a rather successful evening. Not since Rain has such an aqueous deluge, been the arresting feature of the action...
...divorce law, giving women the right to sue for divorce on the same grounds as men, passed its second reading in the House of Lords. It passed its third reading in the Commons early this month...