Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordered the Democratic Party to open its enrollment books to Negroes and permit them "full participation in party affairs." He went even further. When a white man, Senatorial Candidate Alan Johnstone, rose to protest, the judge had him forcibly ejected. He told the crowd of Negroes who jammed his courtroom: "It is a disgrace when you have to come . . . and ask a judge to tell you how to be an American...
...someone else to get hit. He had even sent out an ambulance to pick up the victim. His Honor, Professor Charles W. Joiner of the University of Michigan's law school, thought he had found a perfect way to get a practical lesson into his students' mock courtroom trials...
...Paradine Case. Alfred Hitchcock's polished but plotty courtroom drama, with Gregory Peck, Valli, Ann Todd, Louis Jourdan (TIME...
Staring at a crucifix on the courtroom wall, the most hated man in Italy sat apparently unmoved last week while Roman spectators screamed and cursed...
Kappler (who became a Roman Catholic convert just before the trial began) testified that he had refused his victims religious assistance "because we were pressed for time, and I know that people who are about to be executed always indulge in talking to the minister." At this the maddened courtroom audience, broke into howls of "Schweinehund!", and surged forward towards Kappler's bench. A muscle danced in his jaw and the saber scar on his left cheek blazed crimson as carabinieri forced the crowd back...