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...bachelor, he likes swimming, plays ping-pong gladly and badly, appears with hair mussed and bushy, clothes drooping as though too big for him. As a violin trader he is ready, shrewd, almost always wins. He regrets leaving Chicago but says he could not resist NBC's "fabulous contract...
...from the stage of Loew's State in Los Angeles; Myrna Loy's rice-powdered legs pranced in many a chorus; Bing Crosby, shaking with stage fright, croaked Mississippi Mud. A buxom girl soprano who had worked with them in Tait's signed a Metropolitan opera contract in a round, florid hand: Mary Lewis. Others who drew Fanchon & Marco checks were Martha Raye, June Knight, Mitchell & Durant, Eleanore Whitney, Johnny Downs...
...citations were ineffective, the Court of Appeals decided, and the Shakespearean sentiments atavistic. Wrote Judge Irving G. Hubbs: "A wife is no longer the property of her husband in the eyes of the law, and by the general acceptance of society. . . . Not being a common law contract the [marriage] relation may be regulated . . . without violating the provision of the Federal or State Constitutions which forbids the taking of life, liberty or property without due process...
...Supreme Court Nurse Catherine Fearon of New York filed an appeal seeking to have New York's anti-heart balm act declared unconstitutional. Cited by her lawyer was Article I, section 10 of the U. S. Constitution: "No State shall.. . pass any . . . law impairing the obligation of contracts. . . ." In the Hanfgarn v. Mark opinion New York's Court of Appeals ruled that marriage "is not a common-law contract as generally understood . . . [containing] many elements foreign...
...there was a bottom to his purse she used all her Central American wiles to get him back into the arena. Ricardo's nerve was gone, so was his stamina; he hated the idea of fighting any more bulls. But finally he gave in, signed a contract for two fights. The first, in the provinces, was near disastrous. The second, in his own city of Madrid, finished him forever...