Word: suits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife threatened court action unless much more money was forthcoming. The triangle crashed and last year Letitia Ernestine Brown sued Mr. Curtis for separation and $250 per week alimony, claiming she was his common-law wife. A Manhattan judge decided their relationship was purely meretricious and illicit, dismissed the suit. Mr. Curtis, declaring his "life was ruined," vanished "to get away from...
...Cohens and the Kellys in Atlantic City (Universal). Long before their shadows could speak, the Cohens and the Kellys were funny in Manhattan, in Paris. Now on the beach they promote a bathing suit business. Seeing his daughter going away with young Pat Kelly, Cohen telegraphs the Atlantic City police please they should arrest Cohen and Kelly, so the police arrest Cohen Sr. and old Mrs. Kelly arriving there to bring back young Kelly and Cohen; and then Mrs. Cohen and Papa Kelly come to jail too and Mr. Cohen is so crazy-acting they padlock him alongside an ugly...
...through a variety of types. One time it was a matter of a student's check being raised by a New York speakeasy; again it was a tenant fighting with his landlord over ill-heated rooms; and still a third time, it was a question of a $5,000 suit which was finally settled, under the Bureau's management...
Thus the bland Sir Joseph may well believe in an angelic guardian. But he must have felt twinges of both chagrin and resentment, last week, when it was announced that the Duveen opinions which had caused the Demotte suit had been sharply repudiated...
...francs. After he died, the bank handling the Dreicer estate engaged Sir Joseph Duveen to pass judgment on the authenticity of the statuette, for which 100,000 francs had already been paid. Sir Joseph called it a modern fake, and the bank promptly refused further payments. Mr. Demotte brought suit. Sir Joseph insisted that he had libeled no one, but had merely expressed a solicited opinion. Mr. Demotte's death kept the affair from the courts...