Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruling might be applied to the grubby crew of witnesses who have defied congressional committees on the same grounds. Some 50 witnesses are currently embroiled with the law and facing jail terms for refusing to answer questions like those put to Mrs. Blau. Among them: Earl Browder, Frederick Vanderbilt Field. The famed Hollywood Ten, however, relied primarily on the First Amendment (freedom of speech) in their refusal to answer the question: Are you a Communist...
...Said the Earl: "All we wanted was a quiet little ceremony with no publicity...
...Earl Browder had gone to jail acting as though he were delighted at the chance to be a martyr. He didn't have $1,500 to put up as bail on a contempt of Congress charge, and, he said contentedly, he didn't know where to find...
...release. Was she a Communist? reporters wanted to know. "Now that's none of your business," she said "and don't you make up anything." The authorities counted up the money, shuffled, scribbled, nodded sagely, and then, only seven days after locking him up, heartlessly booted Earl out into the cold capitalistic world again...
...late 19th Century, Harvard's famed George Lyman Kittredge began poring over the records of every likely Malory, Mallore, Maulore, Mallere, Malure, Mallery, and Maleore in 15th Century England. After months of investigation, he finally fixed on Sir Thomas Malory of Warwickshire, a member of the Earl of Warwick's retinue during the Hundred Years...