Word: summonsed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The item reminded Sir Thomas that he had crammed the summons into his pocket weeks before, when a call boy had shouted it was time to conduct a concert.
Fishing in the same pocket of the suit he wore at the concert, negligent Sir Thomas found the summons, hopped to a telephone, rang up his solicitor.
Sir Thomas Beecham, famed orchestral conductor, son of the potent pill tycoon, read in a London newspaper last week that he had been fined ?10 ($50) for failing to answer a summons.
"Sir Thomas Beecham is a busy man," explained the solicitor to the judge, who promptly remitted the ?10 fine when the solicitor pledged his word of honor that a hotel bill for ?16 which busy Sir Thomas had also forgotten to pay, and which was the cause of the original...
Founded in 1886 by one Henry Bergh* the A. S. P. C. A. fulfills few of its original functions, though its purpose has not changed. In New York City it now collects all the dog taxes; its uniformed agents have police powers and carry 38 Colt revolvers, possess summons books...