Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scene of Judgment Day is a courtroom in "a capital of Southeastern Europe." Accused of attempting the life of the Dictator-Minister-President, three alleged members of the People's Party are brought before the High Court. One is a young German who sits soddenly with hanging head, occasionally mumbling nonsense. "Has he been drugged?" one of the judges asks. Another is an uncowed, sharp-tongued individual named George Khitov (Walter Greaza), who denounces the accusation as a frame-up, the witnesses as tools of the National Party. When the beefy, ranting Minister of Culture & Enlightenment (Romaine Callender) appears...
...London, Lady Clare and Tony Croom enjoy each other's company ecstatically but not improperly. Nonetheless, when Sir Gerald sets a detective on their trail, he finds them dozing together in an old Ford roadster. The result is an action for divorce which makes one of the most striking courtroom scenes of the season...
...clock every evening to give its other concessions a chance. One day in September he manipulated the limbs of a longtime rheumatic. Next day she died and John Cudney was arrested for manslaughter. When a jury acquitted him six months later he marched from the courtroom on a path of flowers...
...Saturday the courtroom was jammed. The judge asked: "Do you still refuse to answer?" Newsmen Durham & Carty got back to jail just in time for supper (a slab of sausage, three slices of bread, a biscuit soaked in molasses...
...Chicago courtroom last week Circuit Judge Harry M. Fisher stared at a voltmeter which had been placed before him on the bench. The voltmeter was connected to a switch, and the switch was connected with the courtroom lights. When the switch was closed Judge Fisher saw the voltmeter needle leap from 0 to 110 on the dial. What he had to decide was whether the thing that made the needle leap was tangible or intangible. There to help him, but arguing on opposite sides of the dispute, were two distinguished Nobel Prizemen...