Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With three witnesses ready to testify that Edward Southwell Russell, 26th Baron de Clifford, was driving 40 m.p.h. squarely in. the middle of a road on a foggy night when his sports car crashed into another whose driver was killed (TIME, Dec. 16), the Crown announced in Old Bailey last week that it would offer no evidence, and Lord de Clifford was held not guilty of dangerous driving...
...seals. Delivered alive at a zoo, they fetch from $5,000 to $10,000 apiece, eat about 150 lb. of fresh fish a day. Goliath, not a circus sea elephant him self, bore a great circus name. Goliath I and II were famed troupers for Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's Circus (TIME. April 18, 1932). Goliath III was last seen in the U. S. on Atlantic City's Steel Pier. Because he ate too much to show his promoters a profit, he was shipped last July to the Hanover Zoo. Roland was originally a little smaller (three...
...genuine resemblance between Carton and Darnay. It is also unfortunate that the movie magnates have to change the inimitable touches which the great authors have included in their works. Dickens knew that cheating at dice would be a great discredit to the witness in the minds of the Old Bailey jury but the director had to change the line to stealing a silver tea pot so as to insert a feeble witticism about its being plated anyway. Fortunately such departures are rare...
...wrist-slapping sentence, attorneys for unpopular Lord de Clifford announced that he "cannot" waive his mandatory right to be tried by the House of Lords. As strongly as possible they hinted that this handsome young man, an ardent British Fascist, would much rather be tried in democratic Old Bailey where a subject convicted of manslaughter is sometimes sentenced to 15 years penal servitude...
Said Professor Joseph Bailey Ellis of the Carnegie Institute of Technology: "A drape would be more suggestive than her statue...