Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Little Liar? The case for Miss Savidge was summed by Sir Patrick Hastings: "Is she telling the truth or is she one of the most consummate little liars a court has ever seen...
Finally the Court became so disconcerted that Comrade Kun's examination was abruptly terminated, and he received a trifling sentence of one month's imprisonment in addition to the two months he has already spent in jail awaiting trial. Loomed next the question of whether Kun can be extradited to Hungary, where he would be tried and unquestionably executed for ordering 144 executions during his 143 days of dictatorship. Portentously the Court of Justice at Vienna and the Court of Appeal of First Instances ruled, last week, that Comrade Bela Kun should be extradited to face certain Death...
...terms of the Chrysler-Dodge merger, one share of Dodge preference stock is exchanged for one share of Chrysler common. Last week, the market value of Chrysler common was in the vicinity of $70. Col. Goddard, acting with the approval of several other minority stockholders, went to the Supreme Court of New York and obtained a temporary injunction restraining the consummation of the Chrysler-Dodge merger. The court finally ruled against Col. Goddard, withdrew the injunction, but also directed Chrysler-Dodge to file a bond guaranteeing "to pay all non-assenting preference shareholders of Dodge Brothers...
...where he loved to lie and dream his poet dreams, the bustling village on market day, the simple carpenter and fisherfolk, and finally, in glamorous contrast, Jerusalem, loud with the pompous clankings of Roman centurions, the sophistries of Pharisee and Sadducee, the sharp bickerings of tradesmen in the temple court. Instinctively avoiding the fierce challenge of the city, Jesus kept to the hills, pondering the wickedness of priests, and the gullibility of the people. But suddenly he heard "the voice of one crying in the wilderness"-John decrying all that Jesus himself abhorred. Wakened from his listless dreaming, by John...
...next week, Charles Callan again approached the poor box. Reflecting that the frightening flash had been caused by some short circuit, he had returned to complete his interrupted robbery. Yet this time again Charles Callan was disturbed. A policeman took him by the shoulder and hustled him to court. Here Charles Callan was confronted by a snapshot of himself showing him in a characteristic pose. In a moment Charles Callan recognized St. Joseph's poor box and his own face peering into it. "Whar did you git that there?" he asked the judge who made no reply but sentenced...