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...damages. The convicted man was freed on $100,000 bail while he appealed for-and won-a new trial because the court had forbidden testimony relating to Miss Pringle's character. The defense charged a conspiracy by Miss Pringle and her partner, one Nicholas Dunaev, to blacken Pantages' reputation after he had rejected their stage act. Following his acquittal the showman announced he would open a new circuit of 30 theatres...
Declared the judge to the prisoner-at-the-bar: ''What you need is for me to have you in a two-by-four room. What I would do to you! I'd blacken your eyes and give you some real American spirit and do for you what your parents should have done. . . . We spend billions in this country for schools and what have we educated here-a mongrel and a moron. . . . I have six kiddies myself and my oldest girl is ten. She knows who God is and the laws of the country. Down at my house...
...situation by pointing out that almost any ambitions man is, in a sense, "dissatisfied" that it is inherent in human nature to always want more than one already has and that many of the 2259 simply refuse to become overcome by inertia. But it is equally, easy to blacken the picture by assuming that the Alumni Appointment Bureau has not a complete file of the jobless and dissatisfied...
...usual emphasis placed on the private life of the once great men. Mr. Thaddeus adds a certain vindictiveness that is not to be found in most authors. That the attempt to blacken the name of Rome is more or less intentional is shown clearly by the preface, and throughout the work there is a use of invective that would have shamed even Cicero in his bitterest mood...
Having built up an apparently substantial case on the grounds that the enchanting evangelist did not hire a substitute to impersonate her at beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea and that consequently anyone who so accused her was attempting to blacken her reputation the defense now turns a complete somersault and tacitly admitting the possibility, even the probability, of such a move, argues that the action does not constitute a crime. Socrates himself could not have more cleverly retreated from a cloud of threatening evidence; even Gratian would have been forced to admire the constitutional genius who prepared the briefs...