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Severo Pancho, nimble Filipino, kissed a professional dancing girl in Manila when the lights were low and the music seductive. She brought suit. Last week the Supreme Court of the Philippines decided that a man who kisses a girl in such an environment is a "victim of circumstances"; hence Senor Pancho was "not guilty...
...Supreme Court's ruling put an end to a suit begun in 1922 in the lower Federal courts by Samuel W. Lambert, learned physician of Manhattan, who sought to enjoin the Prohibition Unit from enforcing the provision concerning whiskey prescriptions. Justice Brandeis' opinion was upheld by Chief Justice Taft and associate Justices Holmes, Sanford, Van Devanter...
...with whom he [Carol] lives" in Paris (TIME, March 22) was declared by the Parisian press last week to have every expectation of shortly increasing the number of his illegitimate children, of whom the most notable is the son of Mme. Zizi Lambrino, his one-time morganatic wife. Her suit to establish the legitimacy of her son (TIME, Nov. 29) was thrown out of court last week, in Paris, the judge considering that only Rumanian courts are competent to adjudicate the matter...
...yacht, Elettra, aboard which I experimented much. The year 1905 also found me perfecting and patenting a horizontal directional transmitting aerial and predicting that I could soon reach the antipodes more easily than nearby places. 1905 was also notable for me as the year of my company's suit against the DeForest Wireless Telegraph Co. (Inventor Lee De Forest of the U. S., subsequently of 'phonofilm' fame). In pro nouncing his decision in my favor, Judge William K. Townsend of the U. S. Circuit Court was at pains to dispel all doubt as to whether...
That modern dealers are willing to pay extravagantly for Gainsborough, Lawrence, Romney, Reynolds, is not surprising. Gentlemen of the 18th Century always understood the art of being well-kept. While they lived they were blessed with money and untormented by morals. Life was obsequious to them. Death has followed suit. Eighteenth Century painting sold well in the 18th Century. It brings better prices now because, in addition to its literary quality, its sentimentalism, its triteness and the excellence of its technical effects, there hovers over it a formal and elegant carnality which the modern mind likes to encounter. Perhaps carnality...