Word: acquitted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maitre Henri Robert asked the jury to acquit "the young stranger here and to give an answer without leaving this courtroom and this child...
...Gigli, whenever he sings with her, must swell his cockerel bosom, look to his biceps if he would be seen to play the man. In the last act of Fedora, hero and heroine meet, brawl; the latter is hurled to the ground. Gigli was determined to acquit himself well. Fiercely he struggled against the onslaught of Jeritza, flung her from him as prescribed; but ah! too boisterous was the fling. Headlong went she, to land in the glass and metal of the footlights, spraining and cutting her wrist. She arose, the performance went on to its applauded end. Two days...
Cancellation of the French debt is not in question. Premier Herriot has made it plain that all France asks is time to acquit herself honorably. In the midst of debate hot words have been uttered both in the French Chamber and in the American Senate. It is now high time statesmen return to sanity and newspapers to the truth...
...think the ethics, the principles and the conventionalities of business through When an officer of the law makes a personal investment in a corporation which is liable to come before him officially and says that in the safe he lost money by it, a mass of the people acquit him of wrong doing; the straight thinker knows that his error was in making the investment at all losses or gains have nothing to do with the question...
...only the number of miles a car has run, but also the rate of speed during any part of the trip. Despite the fact that no recording speedometer has been perfected, the new law makes it compulsory for every car to carry one. This automatic evidence will both acquit the innocent and convict the guilty...