Word: bailiffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demonstration. "Never turn your back on Prince," admonished Circus Manager Alexandre Bouglione as Steinmann prepared to enter the cage. A breathless girl in black rushed up to wish the trainer bonne chance. "This," shouted the lawyer for the defense, "is all irrelevant," but nobody paid any attention. A court bailiff pulled a green dossier from his overcoat pocket and settled down to take notes...
...that what they are looking at is a very expensive movie set, Bergman's passionate fidelity to her part saves the day. Fine supporting actors play the Dauphin (Jose Ferrer), the Count of Luxembourg (J. Carrol Naish), the Bishop of Beauvais (Francis L. Sullivan) and Joan's bailiff (Shepperd Strudwick...
...CRIMSON lineup: le, Bailiff; it, S. D. Riterson; lg, G. G. Henpeckd; c, I. Got Mellingor; rg, Paul Sack '48; rt, S. W. or R. A. Green; re, Tow L. Joque; qb, A. P. Farb; tb, Fiend; fb, O.K. Prat; wb, Legman M. Davis...
...Spectator carried a half-page picture of its brutally beaten editor and the charge that "political intrigue" was behind the attack. McCabe had reason to think so. Since he bought the Spectator twelve years ago to fight the state G.O.P. machine, he had been beaten by a bailiff who resented an editorial, beaten again when he demanded an audit of county records, and had his windows smashed after making a speech against slot machines...
When an overbearing Scottish bailiff tries to put an old woman's dog to death because she can't afford a license, the journalist makes an issue of it, a laughing stock of the politician, and a bride of his sympathetic daughter. The journalist is sued, enabling the plot to disentangle itself in a fast-moving, hilarious court scene. Through the failure of his plans, the father understands that men must be allowed to think for themselves, and that democracy is ultimately the only possible form of government...