Word: colloquy
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...Manhattan court, Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. was about to deliver his charge to the jury in an assault case, when he noticed that Juror No. 7 was missing. After a whispered colloquy with a court clerk he announced. "Juror No. 7 is absent under rather peculiar circumstances." Juror No. 7, a Miss Vivian Morrison, 52, was being convicted in another Manhattan court of using a slug instead of a nickel in a subway turnstile. Judge Nott declared a mistrial. Approximate cost to the State of the subway slug...
...Scene 2, only a year after her coronation, "Vicky" has already begun to assert her Teutonic stubbornness. Her colloquy with Lord Melbourne, in which she gently lets that Prime Minister understand that she will accept his matrimonial advice provided that it coincides with her own wishes, is strongly reminiscent of Actress Hayes' pert and pretty Bab period...
...length. One is just beginning to fill one's soul with plum pudding and Father Noel when it is time to return to the dismal white wastes broken only by the peak of Memorial Hall. After the briefest snatch of relief, festivities are suddenly exchanged for facts, conviviality for colloquy. And because the recess is so short, the Yuletide days of a Harvard man are the acme of strenuous relaxation and busy indolence. The student comes back from his vacation completely worn out. It is at least possible that a longer recess would not be so exhaustingly packed...
...colloquy was broken off when Senators Borah, Norris, George and others retired to work out a compromise. They returned to propose that recovery suits be allowed only when the processor could prove that he had not passed the tax on to consumers or back to farmers...
...This colloquy finished, William Thomas De Boe began abusing the prosecutor and witnesses at his trial, scolding the women in the crowd for coming to "see this," warning the men against "wrong life and bad company." Singling out a relative of Mrs. Johnson, he rebuked the man for trying to get on the jury that convicted...