Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hero of the skirmish was the clerk of the court. Carefully balancing a heavy glass inkwell, he watched for an opportunity, let fly. It caught Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera under the temple, stopped the riot. Thirty-seven Fascists in the courtroom were arrested. Fascist Primo de Rivera was hurried to a clinic to have his head patched, then put back in his cell to cool off for five months more...
...plaster statuet of Justice went sail ing through the air, crashed against the wall. Like prudent woodchucks the three judges ducked, shouting orders to clear the court. All over the courtroom Fascists and police were mixing it up. Furious Primo de Rivera kicked impotently at the panels of the bench itself, swept off files of papers...
Sandwiched between two black-gowned barristers acting temporarily as judges, Sir Samuel Lowry Porter sat in his own courtroom, King's Bench No. i, not to try a criminal case, but to act as a court of inquiry in a scandal that for a time threatened last week to upset the British Cabinet...
...with a shot of a loudspeaker which emits a march tune and an announcement that its dramatized news program is that of "the weekly newsmagazine." There follows an inordinately frenzied resume of what would appear to be just another murder. All this constitutes a dubious asset to a crime-&-courtroom picture which is otherwise well-plotted, well-paced entertainment...
...your gun," cried Marion Zioncheck. In the ensuing scuffle the sergeant suffered a sprained finger, facial bruises. Capitol police joined the fray, helped hustle Representative Zioncheck into the guard room. Swearing he would sue the police department for false arrest, he finally agreed to go to court. With the courtroom jammed, Representative Zioncheck, acting as his own attorney, pleaded guilty to the speeding charge but insisted that he had not been properly notified when or where to appear for trial. Judge Casey withdrew to his chambers to consider this contention. "Just a minute," Zioncheck yelped. "What about my case...