breach-of-promise

She and Agnes, who are attractive young women, will lure older men with money into infatuations that inspire them to write passionate love letters that can later be used as evidence in breach-of-promise or “heart balm” suits.

Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008

She and Agnes, who are attractive young women, will lure older men with money into infatuations that inspire them to write passionate love letters that can later be used as evidence in breach-of-promise or “heart balm” suits.

Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008

She and Agnes, who are attractive young women, will lure older men with money into infatuations that inspire them to write passionate love letters that can later be used as evidence in breach-of-promise or “heart balm” suits.

Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008

She and Agnes, who are attractive young women, will lure older men with money into infatuations that inspire them to write passionate love letters that can later be used as evidence in breach-of-promise or “heart balm” suits.

Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008

There is the breach-of-promise blackmailer, and there is the female patient, who threatens to charge you with improper conduct or indecent assault.

Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

If down the highway I should press, beneath the summer skies, to rescue damsels in distress and wipe their weeping eyes, I'd win no praises from the sports; they'd call me a galoot; I'd have to answer in the courts to breach-of-promise suit.

Rippling Rhymes Walt Mason

He gayly rallied Charlie Hardy on his flirtations; predicted seeing him yet brought up with a round turn in a breach-of-promise case; seemed highly edified by Frankie Taliaferro's efforts to appear unconcerned at these pleasantries; railed openly at

The Love Affairs of an Old Maid Lilian Bell

"It's a breach-of-promise case they've got on!" said Freddy Plunger confidentially to half a dozen members of the Third who had been discussing the event.

The Hero of Garside School

Down at the Hotel California, famous for its rare collection of attractive feminine guests and the manifold breach-of-promise suits which had emanated from the palm bedecked entrance, Helene

The Voice on the Wire Eustace Hale Ball

Calling their attention to the daily newspaper reports of divorce and breach-of-promise suits, of wife murders and "paramour" shootings, of abortions and infanticide, she told them that the prevalence of these evils showed clearly that men were incapable of coping with them successfully and needed the help of women.

Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian Alma Lutz