Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emphatically denying all charges against himself in connection with the bombing in St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome on June 25, Gaetano Salvemini. Lauro de Bosis Professor of Italian Literature, dared Mussolini yesterday to have him sentenced guilty and give him a chance to defend himself...
...four bear-trapping, motorboat-driving, flying, hotel-owning Stevens Brothers of Lake Placid. Beaten this year for the two-man title, they had the satisfaction of keeping the four-man title in the family. Hubert, who won the two-man championship last year, was too ill to defend it this year. Last week two Stevens teams were entered in the four-man race. After a day's postponement because it was so cold that drivers' noses froze while they were making the run, Raymond Stevens won the title for the Stevens family for another year...
Outraged counselors leaped to defend themselves. Cried Dr. Henry C. Link of Manhattan's Psychological Service Center: "Dr. Lorge's methods in arriving at his conclusions are comparable to making cheese pie without any cheese. . . . There was no professional assistance in guiding the boys and girls. If they had been given true vocational guidance the results would have been different...
...defend the adequacy of rule by gentleman's thumb has been during the recent year of recrimination the duty of Richard Whitney, himself unmistakably a gentleman. That duty he prepared to perform in Washington this week for possibly the last time. For the Senate of the United States, snobbish though it is concerning itself, refuses to recognize gentleman-as-such and is about to entertain a bill which would give the Government more actual rule than any previous bill over not only the New York Stock Exchange and the dozens of other exchanges throughout the land but also over...
Otto Kruger, as a talented criminal lawyer, has numerous affairs with women, always, however, with an indifferent attitude, for he still loves his wife who had left him many years before. A young girl comes to his office to ask him to defend her father, being tried for the murder of her step-mother. "He's innocent. Step-mother ran around lots, but pa did not mind. . . . He's an old and innocent man." When Otto Kruger sees the picture of the lady in question, he gurgles rudely, and then orders the girl and his junior partner to leave...