Word: courting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosperous Jackson damage-suit lawyer and a Baptist deacon, and, happily for his campaign, he talks and acts like a back country bumpkin, a campaign posture that wowed the rednecks. In his Jim Crow campaign, he resorted to every sort of distortion and epithet. He defied the U.S. Supreme Court, hurled Mississippi mud at Gartin (whom he called "Little Boy Blue") and Gartin's patron, moderate (for Mississippi) Governor J. P. Coleman. Last fortnight in Poplarville, scene of the recent lynching of a Negro named Mack Parker (TIME. May 4 et seq.). Gartin was greeted by Barnett posters...
...jets, the answer is still unclear and the problem increasingly acute. To date, in the absence of international agreement, offenders have been prosecuted by arrangements (sometimes of questionable legality) between the individual countries involved, or have gone scot-free because no court could decide on jurisdiction...
Appeal. In Indianapolis, accused Bootlegger Eugene Turner was freed in court when the evidence-two half-pints of whisky-mysteriously disappeared...
Anatomy of a Murder. Producer-Director Otto Preminger's effective courtroom melodrama that seems less concerned with murder than with anatomy. James Stewart is the lawyer and Lee Remick the defendant's inviting wife in a court whose memorable presiding judge is famed Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch...
Daughter of France, by V. Sackville-West. Louis XIV's scow-shaped spinster cousin, Anne Marie, who for years drifted undisturbed through the roiled waters of the French court, is portrayed by a witty biographer...