Word: courting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the Upper House of Parliament are greatly disturbed over a recent British court decision that children conceived by artificial insemination are illegitimate. (In the United States, the artificially inseminated children are legitimate if both parents consent to the operation, Zimmerman stated...
Humphrey's voice gets lower and his forehead furrows deeper as the trial pushes its way through an unusually accurate court-fight; he almost gets the guy off except for the last-ditch try of a suitably cynical district attorney who comes through for law-and-order with a witness-stand confession. The picture is populated with Bogart's standard collection of pool-sharks, fifty-year old newsboys named "Junior," and punch-drunk bartenders, but the big star is the camera, which pokes behind garbage cans, into alleyways, and peers around the courtroom with far more than usual perception...
...first House music room and record collection, a library strong in American Literature and well-stocked in other fields, a ping-pong room, squash courts and the only House tennis court in the world...
...because the Bellboys are assured of victory, because they're not. Both teams have a record of 11 wins and 3 losses in their respective leagues. It's just because most of the Bellboys have had so much experience on the court in the last few years that they can face a tough opponent with almost professional level-headedness...
Goldsmith, high scorer in the A League with 228 points in 14 games, is so good at anything in basketball that he really doesn't have a specialty. But if he does, it's the ability to steal the ball from a foe and escape down the court...