Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight black-robed figures sank down with gloomy dignity behind the long bench. Duplicates in wrinkled old flesh of the classic busts of their predecessors niched in the walls around them, the eight fine faces peered out through the shadows of the courtroom. Then the crier, in sharply pressed cutaway, rapped his gavel once and announced: "Oyez, oyez, oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable Court...
...tense courtroom cleared, a prosecuting attorney walked over to Banker House and, with hand outstretched, said: "I am sorry...
...advisory position, a more important issue is raised. That a Justice of the Supreme Court should counsel either the Executive or the Legislature is without known procedent. The decisions which he and his colleagues make from the Beach cannot be revered, and it is only in the courtroom where he is supposed to comment on governmental matters. The division between the Executive and Legislative branches has certainly become less sharp these last two years. Congress has entrusted some of its powers to the President and has yielded others to organizations like the NRA and AAA which by simple decree exercise...
Judge Priest (Fox). Best shot in this picture: a tippled old juror, in the final courtroom scene, after expectorating an ample supply of tobacco juice loudly and accurately into a spittoon, describing how he contrived to hook the stream around a table leg to reach its mark.* The sot is one of the minor characters who, together with shambling, inarticulate Stepin Fetchit (TIME, March 12), supply most of the comedy relief...
...head-ducking. Funnyman Rogers is a less hackneyed philosopher than he was in earlier films. Time is the slow Kentucky '90s. Plot is concerned with a judge who is fond of his nephew who is fond of the pretty but poor white trash next door. Not until the courtroom scene discloses that a reticent, no-account town character named Gillis, once convicted of murder, is not only the young girl's father but also a great Confederate hero of the Civil War, do things come out the way they should. Mounted against crinolines and candy-pulling, Negro melodies...