ABSTRACT
The Associated Press ran a six-paragraph story quoting from her deposition: "Defendant is shrewd and quick in his mental processes, commands a vocabulary virtually unlimited, is a facile veteran in the use of invective and development of criticism, a phase of his equipment that he constantly uses in administering verbal punishment upon complainant." New York was becoming uncomfortable for both of them. The affair and the divorce had caused a nasty scandal in the tight social circle of the Armstrong and the Waiter Lippmann’s. Society viewed Hamilton Fish Armstrong, born into an old and prestigious New York family, as the aggrieved husband. Lippmann went to Chicago in mid-February to deliver three lectures on what he called the "American Destiny," that is, that America must become Britain's heir in regulating the world balance of power. The separation and the divorces had taken on the elements of a public scandal.
