Word: courting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court listened to him for two days, called him a liar and observed: ". . . the well-known trick ... of substituting for guilty participants dead men whose lips are sealed." There would be no new trial for any of the boys...
Last week New York's Court of Appeals agreed: the three men must die in the electric chair. If all goes well, Johnny Dunn and his pals, losers in the deadly game that still goes on on the waterfront, will have to keep a date in The Dance Hall-the last-night cells that lead into the death chamber...
...Ashamed to Beg." In Sofia last week, three judges sat in front of a heroic mural of the blindfolded Goddess of Justice. Behind the defendants and their armed guards was a special section reserved for the defendants' relatives. First to come before the court was the Rev. Nikola Naumov, president of the Supreme Council of Bulgaria's United Evangelical Churches. He had always been known to his friends as a man of staunch convictions. "I confess I am guilty," he said in a clear voice. "I am sincerely sorry for what I have done." He remained...
Faithful to the English. In court last week, Ridgeway's lawyer tried to hold against her the extravagance of her preparations. Cried he: "The sartorial brilliance of her trousseau might have come from The Arabian Nights" But the jury awarded her ?10,500 damages. In tears, Liana turned down nearly four-fifths of the award and accepted only ?2,200. She said: "I do not want the money. I do not want to ruin...
...theater company will be required to get rid of more than half of Paramount's 1,450 houses within three years, specifically those which are now owned jointly with local companies, or which have no competition. No new theaters may be acquired without court permission...