Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essence of Riskin-Capra magic to defy analysis on paper because it fits so perfectly its proper medium, the screen. In Mr. Deeds Goes to Town it is applied most spectacularly to a courtroom scene in which Longfellow simultaneously proves his sanity and regains the faith in the girl he loves (Jean Arthur) which he had lost on learning that she was the reporter who made him the city's laughing stock. The scene is consequently the funniest as well as one of the most spiritually nourishing cinema climaxes of the current season...
...Manhattan she developed into one of the most fabulous sob sisters of the gaudy, pre-War journalistic era. She covered many a killing in & out of Manhattan, sobbed her way in print through so much murder testimony that a courtroom bromide attached itself to her: "Dorothy Dix has arrived. The trial may now proceed." By 1908, Dorothy Dix's feature ("Dorothy Dix Talks") was appearing daily...
Last week, when Superior Judge Joseph Jerome Trabucco saw no reason for a fourth trial and set him free, Lamson lost his calm, stumbled weeping from the courtroom to see his 5-year-old daughter, Allene Genevieve. Bashful at first in the presence of a person she scarcely knew, Allene soon dropped her shyness, clasped her father in her arms, cried: "Oh, Daddy, where are you going to sleep...
...Defense. The New Deal did not pick up the blunt and battered weapons with which it had failed to save NRA. Donald Richberg and Solicitor General Stanley Reed were not heard again in the courtroom nor were their arguments. This time the Government's counsel was John Dickinson, onetime professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, later Assistant Secretary of Commerce, now Assistant Attorney General. He had worked up new arguments with the aid of his old friend. Professor Edward S. Corwin of Princeton. Their prime point was that if the Government has power to regulate interstate commerce...
...book about it (I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang), three years ago persuaded Governor Moore of New Jersey not to send him back. Year ago, toward the close of the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in Flemington, N.J., Preacher Vincent Burns leaped-up in the courtroom, babbled something about a man having confessed the Lindbergh kidnapping to him. Rushed out of court, Mr. Burns tried unsuccessfully to sell a 10,000-word account of the "confession" to the Press. Said he: '"I am not a seeker of publicity." Two days later he turned up successively...