Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...term probably originates in courtroom procedure, where judges may instruct the court stenographer not to record certain testimony or discussion. H. L. Mencken credits New York's Governor Al ("Let's look at the record") Smith for bringing it into wider use. It became popular in Washington during the New Deal...
...when the old First Baptist in Fort Worth burned down, Pastor Norris was indicted for arson. When he produced threatening letters to prove it was the work of his enemies, he was charged with perjury. A jury acquitted him on both charges, while his congregation filled the courtroom to sing The Old-Time Religion. In 1926, in his church study, Norris shot and killed an unarmed Fort Worth lumberman, D. E. Chipps, got off scot-free when he called it "self-defense." Constantly at odds with the Southern Baptists, he organized some 3,000 churches into his own Fundamentalist fellowship...
...Nothing. In Roswell, N. Mex, while being tried in juvenile court for stealing five cars, twelve-year-old Arley Lewis bolted from the courtroom, ran ten blocks, stole a sixth...
Neither the defendants nor their lawyers attempted the kind of sustained courtroom didos which kept the New York trial of Red leaders in turmoil (TIME, Jan. 31, 1949 et seq.). One Government witness, an ex-Communist named Louis Rosser, spiced up the proceedings by recalling that the party had continually urged him to "move in" with a "well-developed Communist woman," and picked five for his consideration before he finally married one. The Government produced one startling witness, a grey-haired little old lady named Daisy Van Dorn, who had eavesdropped while running the elevator in a San Francisco Communist...
Lush Cinemactress Marilyn (Clash by Night) Monroe played an indignant role in a Los Angeles courtroom as the state's star witness against two men charged with using Marilyn's name on letters hawking nude photographs of her "in every pose imaginable." Posing prettily, the onetime undraped calendar model said "no" a dozen times, thus denied any knowledge of the pornographic racket. As she explained demurely, "the pictures are of somebody else...