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Only a Verdict. When the verdict was ready (the jury was out more than 26 hours), Judy entered the courtroom at Archie's side, her face expressionless and pale, the blue circles under her eyes showing the strain of her trial. Smiling nervously, she turned to him: "I don't know whether I can take it or not." Lawyer Archie was brash and noisy as ever. "Don't worry," he explained with fatherly concern. "It's only a verdict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Guilty! | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...clean out the toughs, vigilante groups of rich young Argentines invaded the waterfront, stayed to learn the tango, later carried it to the ballrooms of France. Transplanted, the tango retained its sad, metallic tempo-one, two, three, pause-and continued to be danced by automatons whose torsos remained in expressionless rapture while their legs swept nimbly through the corte (cross step) and corrida (promenade). Actor Rudolph Valentino showed moviegoers how to do it when he tangoed his way to fame in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: La Cumparsita | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Dozens of embalmers are at work in the garage as people gather outside in silent expressionless groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Texas Blast Kills Estimated 1200 As Nitrate Ship Explodes in Fire; No Phone Strike Compromise Seen | 4/17/1947 | See Source »

...thousands of children who devoured her books took it for granted that Beatrix Potter was long since dead-a notion that Mrs. Heelis of Sawrey did her best to encourage. The few who unveiled her incognita and greeted her as a great artist were received with "the searching, expressionless stare of a little animal." Then she would shout: "Great rubbish! Absolute bosh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small but Authentic Genius | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Redin waited more than 20 hours. Then came the word: the jury was ready with a verdict. They filed into the box, their faces expressionless, their manner grave. The verdict: Not Guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Reasonable Doubt | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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