Word: courting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there's been a lot of loose thought on the distinction between moral and legal obligation. Decent people usually carry out their contracts because of moral obligation. Some decent people default in their contracts because they get in trouble one way or another, and then they go to court...
...Philadelphia's Judge Curtis Bok, himself an author (Backbone of the Herring), ruled thoughtfully that nine novels (including works by James T. Farrell, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner) seized in vice-squad raids were not obscene. Said the court: "I should prefer that my own three daughters meet the facts of life and the literature of the world in my library than behind a neighbor's barn, for I can face the adversary there directly...
When Mrs. Phillips fell into arrears on her payments, Radioman Pearson went to court and got a judgment which ordered her to give back the radio and pay him $81.50 in court costs and collection fees...
...Phillips gave up the radio, but could not pay the rest. In August 1943, Pearson had the city marshal sell off Mrs. Phillips' assets-her house and lot-to satisfy the court order. Pearson was the only bidder, and he offered $26.50. A year later, as required by law, the marshal delivered the deed to Pearson. During those twelve months, Mrs. Phillips could have kept her home by paying the $26.50 plus a $25 marshal's fee. She says nobody told her that...
Manhattan's ritzy Ritz Tower Hotel went to court to persuade Actress Ruth Chatterton, 55, to stop cooking in her three-room suite. The neighbors were complaining of "powerful odors," and the management had tried without success to deodorize the halls. An attorney for the stage & screen actress who once starred in Broadway's Come Out of the Kitchen (1916), said that she was "very much annoyed" and would move...