Word: courting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME erred, should have gone further into court record...
Swayed. In Bury St. Edmunds, England, when only eleven jurors filed out. of the box at West Suffolk quarter sessions court, Judge Gerald Howard took another look, spotted the twelfth juror sound asleep...
...Letter. In Hartford, Conn., upon becoming a U.S. citizen in federal court, Turkish-born Haroutious A. Aprahamian changed his name to Haroutious A. Abrahamian...
Home Team Batter. In Appleton, Wis., sentenced to two years' probation for beating his wife, William Van Linn told the court: "My wife wouldn't bake me a cake, and bakery cakes aren't as good as homemade ones...
...likely to be more startled by the manners than the morals. The Queen's own gentleman-in-waiting thought nothing of dropping the royal hand for a moment "pour alter pisser contre la tapis-serie." Garbage filled the rank Parisian streets, but the stench of the dandies at court was almost as overpowering. The plumed and perfumed male of the era might choose from 50 shades of stockings with which to drape his shapely shanks. Some of the morosely fanciful hues: dying monkey, resuscitated corpse, lost time, mortal sin, and (says Author West primly) "others too squalid for polite...