Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Look, No Feet! In Milwaukee, Arthur Cole. 30, having failed all standard police sobriety tests, was acquitted of a drunken driving charge after he suddenly upended himself, walked steadily on his hands across the courtroom...
Kluckhohn's parents, Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, and Florence R. Kluckhohn, lecturer in Sociology, were both in the courtroom for the preliminary hearing. Previously, Kluckhohn's attorney had sought dismissal of the murder charge, contending the shooting was accidental...
...opera represents a courtroom trial in the afterworld, in which the newly dead Roman general Lucullus pleads his case for admission to the Elysian Fields. The libretto, originally written as a radio play in 1936, is by Germany's Red poet Bert (ThreePenny Opera) Brecht, but its only ideological message is antimili-tarism (the Communists condemned the text in 1951 as too "unpolitical"). In a stunning setting of blocks and planes, Lucullus faces a jury of five pale shades: courtesan, teacher, baker, farmer and fishwife. His character witnesses are stone-relief figures from the frieze that decorates his tomb...
...courtroom clash is first-rate theater...
...middle of a Cleveland vice trial, the lawyer for three defendants accused of pandering asked the judge to put newsmen and spectators out of the courtroom to ensure privacy. Said Cleveland Common Pleas Judge Parker Fulton: "We don't want to get into, the fix they did in the Jelke case. In that case, the judge on his own motion sent spectators out. I wouldn't do that." Instead of ordering newsmen out, Judge Fulton asked the defendants first to formally waive their constitutional right to a public trial. Only then did the judge order press and spectators...