Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indictment charged de Clifford with "feloniously killing and slaying" Motorist Hopkins...
...slightly more uncomfortable than on his usual woolsack, Viscount Hailsham sat down. The peers doffed their cocked hats. Garter King of Arms, a figure in black and cloth-of-gold, read the King's Commission signed by George V: "Know ye that Edward Southwell Russell, Lord de Clifford, stands indicted before...
...Oyez, oyez, Edward Southwell Russell, Baron de Clifford, in the name of the King come forth and save you and your bail or else you forfeit your recognizance!" cried the Clerk...
...this Lord de Clifford, whose mother was a six-foot showgirl, came towering in -six feet five inches of gangling but impeccably groomed youth. Escorting him to the bar, where he fell on his knees upon a velvet cushion, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod boomed, "Oyez, oyez. God save the King...
Defending Lord de Clifford, Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett recalled that the defendant had admitted to police that he was driving on the wrong side or middle of the road, saying he had done so because the other car was approaching at tremendous speed and in his judgment that was the way to minimize or avoid an accident. "In the agony of the moment, just before the collision," cried Sir Henry, "he did as he thought best...