Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greenville he decided to "rest," and forthwith dropped his 260 pounds, unevenly distributed on his 6 ft. 8 in. frame, on the floor of a courtroom. He did it again at Evergreen, and then outraged even his folksy constituents by getting drowsy on the sidewalk in front of a cafe in Atmore...
...Meegeren was less pleased when D. A. Hoogendijk, a trusted Amsterdam dealer, who had sold two of the forgeries, testified sadly: "Now that I look around this courtroom and see all these paintings together, I don't understand how I could ever have believed them to be Vermeers...
Last week, in the first exhibition war crimes trial staged by the Russians in Germany, 16 of Sachsenhausen's top jailers were called to book for their crimes. In a courtroom in Berlin's Soviet sector, they were confronted by a file of witnesses, some weeping, some scowling with hatred, some icily vengeful. But in this trial, the Communist desire to win friends and influence Germans diluted the passion for swift justice that had led the Russians at Nürnberg to demand death penalties for all the accused...
...Pressman, general counsel for the Congress of Industrial Organizations, will deliver his legal analysis of the highly controversial Taft-Hartley labor act to tite University chapter of the National Lawyers Guild in Lagdell Courtroom tonight at 8 o'clock...
High-keyed, redhaired, green-eyed Cinemactress Greer Garson, pushing 40, told a judge that Actor Richard Ney, 28, had called her a "has-been." She got a quick divorce and left the courtroom sobbing as the flashbulbs popped...