Word: devlin
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...from the legend of the Mad Booths, and something from the lives, to which have been added puns, pomposities, and speeches from Shakespeare's plays. In an atmosphere of swig-and-spout, Old Junius and Young Ned part company in California; Ned, amid rehearsals, finds romance with Mary Devlin; John Wilkes Booth shouts his Latin and is the assassin of a President; at the Players Club he founded, Edwin dies while thunder rolls...
...most curious situation, perhaps unique in these courts," mused Mr. Justice Devlin last week, "that the act of murder has to be proved by expert evidence." Even Dr. John Bodkin Adams, the defendant in one of the longest murder trials in Old Bailey's history, was said to have asked in wonderment, "Can you prove it was murder?", when police arrested him last December on suspicion of having poisoned his eccentric old patient, Mrs. Edith Alice Morrell, in seaside Eastbourne six years earlier...
...Stranger. In San Francisco, the burglary trial of Edward J. Devlin was interrupted when a police inspector tapped Juror Vernon F. Bartholomew outside the courtroom, arrested him on a bad check charge...
...figure-skating competition waltzed off with U.S. titles. In the men's division, World Champion Hayes Alan Jenkins, 20, won his second straight U.S. title; in the women's division, former World Champion Tenley Albright, 18, took her third straight. ¶ In London, another U.S. girl, Judy Devlin, 18, won the All-England women's badminton title, considered the world championship. Men's winner, for the second straight year:Malaya's Eddie Choong. ¶ At Hallandale, Fla., a California-bred colt popped up as a serious contender for Kentucky Derby honors. Robert S. Lytle...
Doing it just that way, with flawless form and breathtaking distance, Riisnaes soared 290 ft., longest of the championship and 3 ft. better than Devlin, on his first jump, wound up with 214.0 points to Runner-Up Devlin's 204.7. The new North American champion began his jumping career at the age of five in Norway, where he has since made a modest name in that land of giant jumpers. Riisnaes, who beat the best in the U.S., is currently just the junior champion of Norway...