Word: guiltlessness
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...tale. The accused young women ruin themselves by pressing an unsuccessful libel suit. Alone in a deserted classroom, Karen Wright (Katherine Emery) and Martha Dobie (Anne Revere) are faced with a hopeless future. In her morbidity, Martha reveals that although Karen is innocent, she, Martha, has not been entirely guiltless in intent. She goes to her room. There is a gunshot. In one of the soundest bits of acting seen this season, Actress Emery lets a full half-minute pass before she reacts to the report...
...Probate, Divorce & Admiralty Division ("Wills, Wives and Wrecks") who has a keen nose for collusion. He dismisses the petition. Stout-hearted John, under advice from his lawyers, goes through the whole business again, making sure that this time there will be plenty of evidence, though he is as guiltless of adultery as before. In spite of his hired co-respondent's coming down with measles at an awkward moment, the evidence is sufficient. Mary is given a decree nisi, to be made absolute in six months. But before that probationary period is safely over, disaster overtakes John and Mary...
...Other Self," dashing up to Königsberg, the picturesque capital of Old Paul's East Prussia. Shouting like one possessed over a nation-wide radio hookup, Orator Hess roared that the Storm Troops are not military, but that Leader Hitler has a right to condemn even guiltless Storm Troopers to death because "in a military mutiny every tenth man is punished, irrespective of whether the bullets strike the guilty or the innocent!" Fearful that some kind of European alliance to attack the Reich may now be forming, Vice Leader Hess began to switch his talk from German...
...speech delivered before the Massachusetts Civic League at the Twentieth Century Club yesterday afternoon, Sanford Bates, United States Director of the Bureau of Prisons, styled Howard B. Gill '13, whithdrawn superintendent of Norfolk Prison as "guiltless," and outlined as ideal, a program which coincides almost exactly with that being conducted at Norfolk...
...solidly built, quick-witted, unaffected speaker, began his remarks in this vein: "I daresay there is considerable difference of opinion here on this subject. Furthermore, I am a bit hesitant about talking penology before such a gathering as this--between the Gloomy Gluecks on the one side and the Guiltless Gill on the other. (Loud and prolonged clapping) If I had said guilty, (aside to Gill) I suppose there wouldn't have been any applause...