Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before a rustling audience of 75, oldtime Actress Maude Adams (Peter Pan, The Little Minister) swept into a Manhattan courtroom to defend herself in a prosaic $200,000 lawsuit. Carried away with the scene, the World-Telegram reported: "The courtroom was crowded with staidly gowned women and mustachioed old gentlemen. . . . On November 6, 1905, Peter Pan's cue line, spoken in the nursery, read: 'Dear night light, that protects my sleeping babes, burn clear and steadfast tonight.' . . . Today an attorney said: 'Miss Adams, will you take the stand, please...
...musty, grey, inadequate courtroom on the fourth floor of the Federal Building, packed, even without spectators, by lawyers of whom the defendants had 20 present, headed by onetime Senator James A. Reed, the trial, delayed all summer by the defense because one of the defendants, Warner Executive Abel Gary Thomas, was ill, finally began with the selection of a jury. To decide a problem whose ramifications have taxed the best brains of the cinema industry and the U. S. Government for the last 15 years, prosecution and defense agreed upon a dozen sleepy-looking Missouri citizens who included a garage...
Then a number of important personages having not the slightest financial stake in the company's future suddenly converged on Judge William Caldwell Coleman's courtroom. Seemingly blocked in their reorganization proposals by the Public Utility Act of 1935, the bankruptcy trustees petitioned Judge Coleman for guidance, suggesting that the Act was unconstitutional. Thus the American States reorganization shaped up as the first constitutional test of the Administration's dearest and harshest legislation...
...Last April the case was tried in Manhattan Municipal Court before Referee John M. Cragen. Vigorously Plaintiff Gillman challenged the findings of Contest Judges Walter K. Van Olinda and Andrew J. Davis, both of whom had a hand in preparing the Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Dictionary. The courtroom rang for a fortnight with such words as: aha, ama, hep, aim, ani, pah. Aha, said Plaintiff Gillman, was either a sunken fence a religious service, or an exclamation. Ama was a wine vessel used in the early Christian Church, also a medical term for "an enlargement of the semicircular...
Into a Los Angeles municipal courtroom was wheeled a stretcher bearing Busby Berkeley, No. 1 Hollywood creator of bizarre cinemusicomedy dance effects. Eyes tightly closed, Dance Director Berkeley winced as a clerk read a grisly account of an automobile accident three weeks ago in which two people were killed, five seriously injured, Berkeley himself badly cut & bruised. Witnesses testified that Motorist Berkeley whizzed down Roosevelt Highway one night, cut out of line, crashed headlong into one car, sideswiped another. Some said they smelled liquor on his breath. "In my estimation a crime greater than manslaughter has been committed," said...