Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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June. In a Bronx courtroom, Mrs. Ella Taffe charged that when she complained to Joseph Scott, butcher, about a chicken he had sold her, he hit her over the head ten times with a side of beef...
Outside the courtroom, Kharkov's Theater Hall, workmen were busy opening mass graves,, carefully lifting rotted corpses, heaping up the bones...
Strange Play. Like actors in a well-worn play, the black-robed, white-wigged attorneys had waded through the tangle of circumstantial evidence. Like playgoers, Nassau's lush sun set had paid early rising natives ?1 a day for places in the tiny courtroom-unless, like the Baron of Trolle, they chose to have their servants bring their own chairs. Evenings the jurors laughed and joked and went to the movies to wave at their families. Between sessions Count Freddy waltzed by himself in the police station, read books on sailing...
...indictment of Germany two weeks after the outbreak of World War I, Church became known as the first violator of Woodrow Wilson's neutrality proclamation. In May 1940, acting for fellow pillars-of-Pittsburgh, Church offered $1,000,000 for the delivery to a League of Nations courtroom of "Adolf Hitler . . . alive...
Against these damaging circumstantial points stood one for De Marigny: Nancy's faith and the preparations she has made for experts' aid if the case comes to trial. But as she left the courtroom one day last week, she stumbled blindly on to the court's back porch, sobbing without restraint. She did not know that the street below was filled with spectators...