Word: court
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Court. Only 25 miles from Picky Pie's murder, a federal grand jury last week indicted seven men for beating a Negro, and a deputy sheriff for letting them do it. Occasional cowardly attacks on Negroes still took place in the back country, but more & more such cases were winding up in the courts...
...Trip to Court. Last week, indicted for manslaughter, young Tom Doxsee came to trial at Plymouth, 48 miles from Dartmouth. The prosecutor, Grafton County Solicitor Robert Jones, was a Dartmouth graduate. So was one of Doxsee's lawyers, Charles Tesreau, son of the late Jeff Tesreau, onetime Dartmouth baseball coach and pitcher for the New York Giants...
...first day all the principals went to the campus to look over Cirrotta's quarters. The next morning they huddled for several hours. In the afternoon an announcement was made in court: the state would permit Tom Doxsee to change his plea from not guilty to no contest. The judge gave him a sentence of one to two years in prison, which was suspended, and a $500 fine. Ray Cirrotta's father, in court for the hearing, collapsed when he heard the sentence. Young Tom Doxsee, as his lawyer paid the $500, said he was "disappointed" with...
Last week, music-lovers drifted leisurely through the dark green marble-pillared rotunda toward the glass-ceilinged East Garden Court for the fifth and final concert of Dick Bales's annual American Music Festival...
Danny wows the people and the purple alike. In London and Manchester, crowds have queued up all night for his performances. He has held court for the royal family and Winston Churchill. "His dressing room," wrote the highbrow Sunday Observer, ". . . is now as crowded and as diversified as the anteroom of an 18th Century nobleman in the days of patronage...