Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took the oath the old man's parchment-skinned hand fluttered gently above his head. To his vast relief the courtroom was almost empty. He sat down in the railed-in witness chair, began answering his counsel's questions in a voice so low it could be heard scarcely ten feet away. The three men on the bench leaned forward, hands cupped behind ears. Soon the news of the witness' appearance was buzzing over Pittsburgh. Spectators began to flow in. Within an hour the courtroom was jammed with citizens eager to hear Andrew William Mellon defend himself...
...every fascinated soul in the courtroom listened. Dr. Arnold told what a thoroughgoing medical expert he was: "I went to my barber and had my neck shaved. Then to raise my blood pressure to a high level I ate a large meal, drank many cups of coffee, and smoked several cigarets...
From a court martial there is no appeal. Month ago Captain Henry Richard Sawbridge of H. M. S. Renown marched stiffly into a courtroom in Portsmouth dockyard and saw that his sword lying on the judges' table had its point toward him in token of guilt. He was retired on half pay and dismissed from his ship as responsible for the strange collision in mid-ocean between the huge battle cruisers Hood and Renown. Rear Admiral Sidney Robert Bailey, in command of the maneuvers, and Captain Francis T. B. Tower of the Hood, also court martialed, were acquitted (TIME...
...jail the Corsican killer alternated between periods of wild religious raving, and periods of deep silence during which he knitted a great deal, made himself a number of jumpers. In the opera house courtroom last week Prisoner Spada was as mad as ever...
Twice during the past three weeks, Trenton, N. J.'s old, spired First Presbyterian Church became an ecclesiastical courtroom. Pious partisans for prosecution and defense filled its pews. The Moderator of the Presbytery sat as judge on the bench, gaveled lustily when spectators laughed. Counsel bickered, wrangled, thumbed through the Presbyterian Book of Discipline to decide niggling points of procedure. And in the church sat a man accused, indicted and liable to be rebuked, suspended or excommunicated...