Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Longfellow, a selection from her letters and journals, gives a few clues to Fanny's dim view of Longfellow's suit. For one thing, she already had a more interesting mind than his. She was well read and neither life nor people fooled her. At 19 she could look back uneasily on "childhood, innocence and ignorance, before the down is rubbed off and the skeleton in all things revealed, and that fiend Doubt become our fireside companion." A bit morbid, perhaps, but still more acute than anything young Henry had yet written. She could also be cattily tart...
...Call You. In Greensboro, N.C., Charles W. Craddock filed suit for $15,000 damages, claimed his dentist dropped a two-inch root-canal reamer down his throat, told him to "go home and forget about...
...iron bar, Oyama signaled frantically to be raised: he was chilled to the marrow and had lost the use of his legs. His shipmates took him ashore, put him in a trough used for boiling seaweed, and lit a fire under him. But the air in his suit inflated with the boiling and he bobbed out. So they took him out of the suit, wrapped him in straw, and poured boiling water over...
Marcelino was an easy child to love. His clear young voice splashed like April sunlight on the sober stones, on the serious monks, and it put new life in them. They even changed their names to suit his fancy, and soon were quite unconsciously calling each other Brother Door, Brother Bad. Brother Cookie. Brother Ding-Dong. The monks also learned, as people with children generally do, that new lives bring new sorrows with them. One day. when he was five years old. Marcelino saw a woman for the first time, a country wife. She told him that...
Service Exit. In Des Moines, the $52,000 damage suit that Hugh Warren Bascom brought against the Lloyd Hotel and two process servers was dismissed, in spite of his testimony that when he climbed out his third-floor window to avoid the process servers, and started lowering himself down the rope provided by the hotel as a fire escape, the rope broke...