Word: courting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rule of Thumb. In Niles, Mich., two teen-agers arrested for stealing a car explained to the municipal court judge that they borrowed it because hitchhiking is against...
After Due Libation. In Williamson, W. Va., after returning a guilty verdict in a first-degree murder trial, eight members of the jury of Mingo County Circuit Court were found guilty of contempt and fined $25 each for drinking beer and whisky while deliberating in a hotel room...
...Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler, and the Bishop of Southwark denounced Magistrate Rose's sentence as "savage and inhuman." Unfortunately, the Widow Christos' case was not the only one. British newspapers were still quivering over the case of a young engaged couple who were haled into court for committing "an act of lewd, obscene and disgusting nature such as to cause offense to diverse of Her Majesty's subjects." The couple's actual crime was nothing more than to kiss each other good night in a parked car. They spent their honeymoon money for their...
...among them, freely offered heretical opinions and answered questions. Of U.S. newsmen he said: "They establish instant, familiar relations with their important guests, which is. you will admit, far different from our traditions, so I had to adapt myself quickly." Were Americans materialistic? "I found them idealistic." What about court protocol? 'I abhor cutaways. They should be banned in Belgium." Of his brother's fiancée. Princess Paola: "A wonderful girl. Italy has given us a lovely present...
...Johannesburg native caught on the streets without a pass in June, for then is when Transvaal farmers direly need black labor to help harvest the maize. If he is lucky, the African will simply be arrested, taken to court and charged $3 for his "crime." But if he does not know the ropes, he will be held for the labor bureaus, where as an alternative to prosecution he gets a chance to sign a "voluntary" farmwork contract...