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Justice Horridge, before whom the damage suit was tried, said: "Captain Wright is justified in thinking that in calling him 'a liar, a coward and a fool' Viscount Gladstone employed the language of the pantry rather than that of the House of Lords...
Captain Wright was quietly expelled from the Bath Club. Last week he sued for damages. After deliberating for an hour and a half, the jury awarded him ?100 ($500) "for loss of club amenities" and ?25 ($125) for injury to his reputation. Triumphant, Captain Wright at once filed suit for libel against Viscount Gladstone...
Sued for Divorce. Doris Mercer Kresge, 33, would-be opera star, by Sebastian S. ("5c and 10c") Kresge, 59, onetime national chairman of the Prohibition Vigilance Committee ("Snoopers' League"); Last year a suit by Mrs. Kresge was settled out of court for $1,000,000 and "certain other considerations," which Mr. Kresge announced were "on a spiritual basis." He was divorced by his first wife for cruelty, sulkiness...
...Deauville a slender woman appeared on the beach in a bathing-suit of green-stitched ostrich plumes, tossed from her shoulders a corresponding peignoir, plunged into the surge. In a moment she emerged, her costume as bold as ever. The feathers, put together with a new waterproofing process, shed water like a duck's back...
...dislike them. That was why the exclamation of the youth on the pier marked off a cycle; it reminded her how delightful it is to be a private citizen and-just sometimes-to be recognized. She was a very different person, this amused woman in the satin traveling suit by Callot, with her just-inspected trunks packed with the dreams of Patou, from the pig-tailed girl in white duck, who played on Long Island five years...