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Prince Kojo is a barrister by profession, and on the following day he lost no time in filing a suit against the proprietor of the cararet for evicting him and against the barman for refusing to serve him with drinks. No sooner had the Prince's suit been filed than Maître Moro Giafferi, most famous of all French lawyers, offered his services to the Prince. Maître Giafferi defended Caillaux, Landru (the French Bluebeard) and Mme. Bessarabe...
Gloria Caruso, three-year-old daughter of the late tenor: " I am summering at Deauville. A despatch said that I ' romp around in a little one-piece bathing suit, just like the big girls...
...blue sack suit and primrose waistcoat...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin: " Because I wore a blue sack suit, primrose-colored waistcoat, shabby soft gray hat and loose gloves to the Eton-Harrow cricket match, Tailor and Cutter pronounced me a ' sartorial weed' - that is, ' suburban.' Lloyd George, the Earl of Balfour and Lord Robert Cecil have been similarly rebuked by this periodical...
Manuel Herrick, whilom Congressman from Oklahoma: "Jilted by Miss Ethelyn Chrane, I demanded $50,000 heart balm. In answering this suit Miss Chrane told the Court I had proposed to marry her secretly and later sell the ' scoop' to newspapers. She said that after she promised to marry me my personality and habits became exceedingly distasteful, and eventually so obnoxious that I was unendurable...