Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trial. Last week the trial began. Rubberneckers swarmed into the Manhattan courtroom of the U. S. Supreme Court as though legal curtains were about to be raised on the scene of some glamorous crime. The jury, chosen for its ignorance of Leonardo, was composed of a clerk, two agents, two realtors, an accountant, a shirtmaker, an artist, a poster artist, an upholsterer, a vendor of ladies' wear and a man without occupation. Chief counsel for Mrs. Hahn was large, ironic S. Lawrence Miller. His opponent was excitable Lawyer George W. Whiteside. The room was littered with books on esthetics...
...opposition to the party in power was responsible for his being removed as a professor, and being brought to trial before a Florence court on the charge of sedition. Although acquitted by the court, he was set upon by a mob of Fascists as he was leaving the courtroom, and barely escaped with his life. As a result of this affair he was obliged to flee from the country, leaving all his property behind to be confiscated by the Fascists. He has the distinction of being one of the two men who have been deprived of their nationality...
...Lansing, Mich., courtroom last week Judge Charles B. Collingwood was sentencing Mrs. Etta Mae Miller. It had taken a jury of eight men and four women only 13 minutes to find her guilty. She was charged with having sold two pints of liquor. She was charged also with being a "habitual criminal," inasmuch as this last offense was her fourth. So to her said Judge Collingwood: "It is the sentence of this court that from and after this day you shall be confined in the Detroit House of Correction for the remainder of your life." In the same court...
Sensation seeking Czechs and Slovaks jammed the courtroom, thrilled by scars and scowls peculiar to the malignant face of Prisoner Bebe...
...Trial. The Warner Brothers' Vitaphone gets a thorough trial in this oldtime courtroom melodrama by Elmer Rice. The verdict: well cast, well talked, well acted, but with a few awkward pauses. The action consists entirely of courtroom testimony with flashbacks to show the events leading up to the murder. It is gradually revealed that Husband No. 1 was justified in killing Husband No. 2, because Husband No. 2 had treated the wife of Husband No. 1 in a dastardly manner. Best shot: a sleepy judge. Best acting: 44-year-old Pauline Frederick and 8-year-old Vondell Darr...