Word: sues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starlets, U.S. Senators, atomic scientists or stock manipulators. Millions of them had never sat on a flagpole, made the headlines in a love-nest raid or lost a $14,000 Russian sable stole; almost as many had yet to sniff cocaine, snap at a waiter in the Stork Club, sue somebody for libel, own a Jaguar 3½-liter convertible, or pour a champagne cocktail over a blonde's shoulder blades...
...Cried the prima donna: "He hired a girl in a hideous blonde wig and passed her off as me. Then he played a screeching record . . . and had the girl mouth along with the words. The result was just awful . . . The image was most unattractive . . ." Dorothy even made threats to sue for "plenty . . . Imagine putting on that horrible-sounding mess and telling everybody I was doing it . . ." Said Milton, through his lawyers: "She is unfamiliar with the actual facts . . ." Then he began trying, still unsuccessfully at week's end, to get Dorothy to appear in person on his next show...
Later Dr. Crook discovered that the Services which had rejected his invention were having it manufactured free of royalty. He tried to sue the Government, but he did not get the necessary permission until 1943. When the suit reached the U.S. Court of Claims, the little professor won a unanimous decision...
...prize is given for the best collateral essay written in connection with the History 1 course. Sue Smart '52 received honorable mention...
...front window of a 1940 Buick belonging to Ralph M. Hymans '49, was broken Wednesday by garage attendants who proceeded to tow the vehicle from its parking place on Holyoke place according to police instructions. Hymans last night announced that he will sue for damages in small claims court...