Word: summonsed
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Editor Brown pocketed the summons, to answer one Herbert T. Darling's $50,000 libel suit, no less distressed by his paper's breach of etiquet than by the fact that the "meanest" rider was not Mr. Darling but a man employed at the same address. Last week...
The friends whom he entertained so lavishly have not forsaken him. Every evening the invaluable "Tilly" summons a different couple to play bridge on the counterpane of his enormous bed. Orchidaceous Novelist Carl Van Vechten stops in from time to time to emit epigrams. Bearded Georges Barrere, Little Symphony Conductor...
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 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...