Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...demi tasse 50?. Jokesters insisted that the park air was still free and that the poor did not have to pay anything to watch the rich dine in their park. To point the issue even more, on the day the Casino opened, 93 ordinary citizens were haled to court, fined for eating their lunches on newspapers spread on the grass of their park. Onetime Mayor John Frances ("Red Mike") Hylan, again a candidate for that office, was quick to make use of the political potentialities of the new Casino. "A night club for the 400 in Central Park." roared...
Last week, in Belgrade, Punica Ratchitch was brought to trial. He pleaded self-defense. The charge was manslaughter. The court was crowded with relatives, friends of the late great Stefan Raditch. Present also was many a Serb. In many a pocket revolvers rested heavily with good cause...
...Butler of the Amalgamated Motors Ltd., Oudtshoorn, Cape Province, South Africa who had a Calcutta Sweepstakes ticket but was reported to have lost it, Jimmy Gibbs, 7, who had a ticket on Favorite Cragadour, part interest in which his father sold for $60,000 before the race, Engineer Arthur Court of Indianapolis who invested one reluctant dollar in the English Derby charity Sweepstakes (Army and Navy Veterans, Quebec, Unit...
...Engineer Court last week was walking home from the building where he tends furnaces when a stranger offered him $10,000 for his ticket. Shrewdly Mr. Court refused, said later to newsgatherers: "I knew then I had something good, so I just held on to it." That night he learned that he had won. Engineer Court's plans: to "take that vacation after all and go fishing," to buy his own home, to provide education for his children, Lawrence, Florence, Floracene, Juanita, Clyde. His other three children are already educated. Engineer Court will not, however, receive the entire value...
...silks, gold brocade, fancy headdress, strutted as members of the Ancient Egyptian Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. That their name and regalia were quite similar to that of the White Shriners,* bothered them not at all, until White Shriners charged imitation, brought suit against them. Four Texas Courts decided against the Negroes. They became worried. But, last week, Negro Shriners puffed out their chests, secure in the knowledge that their parading would never be stopped. For the U. S. Supreme Court held that White Shriners had been guilty of "laches," decided in favor of the Negroes...