Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news photographers can be fully as thrilling as those of newshawks. Ingenuity comes quite as much into play. Jack Price thinks the most ingenious stunt he ever saw was ''Crazy Johnny" O'Brien's, at a Mineola murder trial. Cameras were barred from the courtroom. The knot of photographers waiting outside was amazed one day to see O'Brien suddenly dash off at top speed down the street. "He's just crazy." they said. He came walking back, looking foolish. Next day he did the same thing. On the third day the verdict...
...property of the value of $66,000." The first round of the fight started when Mr. Insull's lawyer, Cristos Ladas, went before the Greek Court of Appeals. He claimed that the extradition treaty was not retroactive, and that Mr. Insull was innocent anyway. In a crowded courtroom he thundered at the five judges. It was all Greek to Samuel Insull as Lawyer Ladas first flattered Greek law ("The very gods on Olympus were willing to be tried by the ancient Greek judges. This case is an opportunity to show the world Greek justice remains free and uninfluenced"), then...
...psychophysical processes of sex in medical education; an article by Ernest Boyd deriding the pseudo-erudition of the U. S. aesthete, the New Humanists, and what he called The New Republic of Letters; a humorous comparison of U. S. and English publishers by Frank Swinnerton; an insane courtroom scene by Ring Lardner parodying the incoherent meanderings of James John Walker's defense counsel in the ex-mayor's trial before Governor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.); a vitriolic attack on the Church and censorship in Ireland by Liam O'Flaherty; an objection to the prevalence...
...semi-final arguments for the Ames Award competition will be held on Thursday, and Friday nights, November 17 and 18, in the Courtroom of Langdell Hall. The Brandeis Club will speak against the Lowell Club on November 17, while on the following night the debate will be between the Choate and Harlan Clubs...
...Night of June 13 (Paramount) begins as a suburban Street Scene, continues as a study of neurotic jealousy, ends as a satire on courtroom justice and middle-aged women. Striking is Director Stephen Roberts' opening device of summarizing his characters by showing a boy taking over a newspaper route on Laurel Avenue, being told by his predecessor the stories behind the house fronts. These include the Curry household where the wife (Adrianne Allen) is absurdly jealous of her husband (Clive Brook); the Strawn household where middleaged. Kewpie-doll Mazie (Mary Boland) badgers her husband (Charles Ruggles) and her bibulous...