Word: chaplinitis
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...everyone of any prominence. Of all the people he knows, he retains his highest admiration for himself. However, he is not averse to discussing the contacts of his fellow Olympians with himself. In this collection he describes in a manner highly anecdotal some 32 persons varying from Charles S. Chaplin and Sarah Bernhardt to Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, James Larkin, Emma Goldman, Lord Curzon. Otto Kahn and Leon Trotzky he compares as "two great captains." His rule, he tells us, has been to take people he has "known intimately and like'd if not loved." Among his exceptions...
...Temporary Husband. Sidney Chaplin, brother of the sovereign Charlie, makes an excellent comic butler. He assists his master to marry the heroine by the insidious device of disguising him in a luxuriant growth of false whiskers and substituting him at the hour of the ceremony for the aged gentleman she intended to marry...
...line-up with an equal number of Engineers at the start of the Charles River course at 2.05 o'clock this afternoon, but of each team only the first five to finish will count in the scoring. In addition to Watters, the Crimson outfit will comprise Captain Coburn, Cutcheon, Chaplin, Harrison, Ryan, Kobes, Cobb, Boyce and Parker...
While the Chaplin case comes to the legal fraternity in an entirely new guise, it seems reasonable to believe that the mere circumstance that the schemers have concocted a kind of deception heretofore unheard of in jurisprudence is no reason why a court of equity should be either unwilling or unable to deal with the situation. The plain intent was, of course, to palm off Amador as another Chaplin, or as Chaplin himself, and this very kind of thing has been forbidden repeatedly by the Court of Appeals of New York State. (White Studio, Inc. v. Dreyfoos...
...question of copyright or patent is involved, but simply the question of whether, upon principles of unfair competition, as enunciated by courts of equity, Amador is acting conscionably and equitably in wearing shoes, a hat, trousers, etc., identical to those adopted and familiarized to all the world by Charles Chaplin...