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Commenting on this statement, Strawn said, "There are a few lawyers still at the Bar who are wont to engage in the laborious and meticulous job of winding red tape. This type of lawyer is rapidly disappearing, for the obvious reason that that kind of exercise is not compensating, remunerative, or even interesting...
...case opened with M. Schwartzbard telling the court in a high pitched voice and halting French, his beady eyes gleaming, his face suffused with joy, how he had tracked Petlura down. With a photograph of his intended victim in his pocket and a loaded pistol in another, he was wont to roam the street peering into the faces of passers-by to see if they were Petlura. All this, he said, he did to avenge the assassinations of his coreligionists. Finally, he found and killed...
Interest centred on Giuseppa (Josephine) Andaloro, mother of three sons and four daughters, together ringleaders of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. She, a toothless, white-haired hag, was called the Queen of the Mafia gangs. Her word was law. Dressed in a man's clothes, she was wont to ride around the country marking out victims for the Mafia. She it was who ordered murders, robberies, extortions, ambushings, torture, kidnappings. None dared disobey her commands...
...Cheshire Cheese, famed London eating house, where luscious mutton chops, sizzling steaks, lean cold lamb, stodgy but satisfying beefsteak puddings and, last but by no means least, palate-tickling lark puddings are served to as many U. S. men and women in London as are wont to drink at the Ritz Bar in Paris?this old London "coffee house" celebrated last week the opening of the winter pudding season with its 152nd annual dinner...
Other famed-people who ate there were Voltaire, Bolingbroke, Pope, Congreve. But, perhaps, none were so famed in his day as Samuel Johnson, who was wont to congregate there with his cronies Oliver Goldsmith & Thomas Chatterton. The Doctor always made for the left hand room and sat at a table near the window?a table and seat that is now pointed out with great pride to visitors. It is related that he would sit there for hours looking at the buxom dairymaids making cheese, afterwards explaining the merits of his famed dictionary to his friends. Exhausting this subject...