Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Things come to a head when Judge Priest, temporarily disbanded, helps defend a stranger on trial for the knifing of one Elisworth Brown, local dude and "jelly-bean" par excellence. The jury seems ready to admit that Master Brown richly deserves his portion, but nevertheless is prone to regard the unsociable defendant, who probably did not fight for the Stars and Bars, with a jaundiced eye. Judge Priest turns the tables in masterful fashion. While the strains of "Dixie" are wafted into the hushed courtroom, the parson, (Henry B. Walthall) comes forward as character witness on behalf of the defendant...
...Maginnes brought to an end Saturday's gridiron hostilities, and Holy Cross stood at the long, long end of a 26-6 score, a good many fans raised the usual cry about Harvard's perennial football weakness. But while these experts were rushing off to the goal posts to defend their college's honor, back in Dillon Field House Coach Eddie Anderson and his entire Crusader squad were voicing a unanimous praise of the work of the Crimson linesmen and were frankly admitting that if it hadn't been for one James H. Hobin the situation might have been quite...
...TIME. Oct. 15). There was an EPIW in Washington. Some 200,000 persons were said to be enrolled in the Utopian Society. If this sort of thing kept on, conservatives predicted that they would probably be clinging to Franklin Roosevelt as the last man left in the country to defend property rights and the capitalist system...
Sherman Bowles, a big, ruddy whirlwind of energy, was quick to defend himself. His newspaper imports newsprint from Finland, and, he said, the contract calls for payment in gold. The gold was in escrow and the Government was formally notified...
...socialite crowd (20,000) in Meadow Brook's robin's-egg blue stands was still shouting when the teams rode out for the last chukker. West was still flabbergasted, East too tired to do much more than defend its goal. Score: East 10. West...