Word: birkett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this indiscretion People apologized, offered heavy damages, which Lady Louis regally refused. Her counsel, Norman Birkett, explained that her departure for Malta, where her husband is in Naval service, "had given an opportunity for the lying, malignant and poisonous tongues of scandal to wag. . . . The most atrocious libel of which I have any knowledge in all my experience. . . . She had been informed of the identity of the colored man. . . . She has never even...
Dramatically, elegant Norman Birkett, counsel for the defense, pleaded mercy for his clients. His cultivated voice tremulous with emotion, Barrister Birkett told how the rascally Gialdini (now in Italy) had evolved the entire scheme of the counterfeit bonds...