Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imprisonment at hard labor. Croats calculated the bitter mathematics. Three men had died from the Ratchitch bullet. Twenty years' imprisonment for Ratchitch; the life of a Raditch therefore was worth exactly six years and eight months of a Ratchitch life. They fingered the revolvers in their pockets, left the courtroom with ideas...
...Tuesday morning, at 9.30 o'clock the Overseers will meet in the new Courtroom of Langdell Hall and there the visiting committees will make their reports. After the business meeting, Dean Roscoe Pound of the Law School will speak on "Alums and Problems of Legal Education." Professor M. O. Hudson will explain the research in International Law and Professor F. B. Sayre will speak on the aims and plans of the new Institute of Criminal...
...explained" the case 'to the jury. He read excerpts from Havelock Ellis and Henry Louis Mencken recommending the pamphlet, but later Judge Barrows instructed the jury: "I warn you against giving these the credence of testimony." Then Prosecutor Wilkinson, a fine, bluff man, read the pamphlet aloud while the courtroom, crowded with spectators, listened breathlessly...
Through Different Eyes (Fox). When the jury decides that Edmund Lowe was the fellow who killed Warner Baxter, a young girl jumps up in the courtroom and tells what really happened. In spite of this framework, the courtroom atmosphere is pretty real and the story depends enough on character to interest its actors. Best shot: mixed bridge in the Manning's livingroom...
Best current pictures listed (A) according to. merit (B) according to the money they made last week: (A) The Passion of Joan of Arc-Silent French version of history's greatest courtroom scene. The Divine Lady-Love among the frigates. The Spieler-Original story of carnival life. Wild Orchids- Greta Garbo in a bedroom for three. Strong Boy-Promotions of a baggage-smasher. (B) The Wild Party ($42,300, Buffalo, Buffalo) ; Wolf. Song ($34,000, Paramount, Los Angeles); Noah's Ark ($20,000, Aldine, Philadelphia); Weary River ($7,900, Des Moines, Des Moines...