Word: instruct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under a directed verdict, the Judge would instruct the jury that there was insufficient evidence to return a verdict of any degree higher than larceny...
...asking the Judge so to instruct the jury, the two attorneys held there was no evidence of force or violence (involved in "robbery") or of use of arms (involved in "armed robbery...
...Whistles. Then there were the performers themselves: "How come somebody doesn't. . . instruct certain of those hamfats in the ABCs of stage deportment? . . . 'Watching a love scene at the Met [wrote Billy, quoting a friend] is like seeing Gone With the Wind with Sydney Greenstreet playing Rhett Butler and Sophie Tucker as Scarlett O'Hara . . .' My suggestion is that we interview the fatsos one by one . . . and suggest they consult a doctor. Of course, great singers like Melchior and Traubel should be kept regardless of heft, but minor singers could be given a year...
...cops tore out to the farm, where they heard a sinister tale. The woman was a schoolteacher who had been brought to New York from Russia two years ago to instruct the children of Soviet diplomats. She was to have returned to Russia at the end of July; the Russians had closed the school. But she was afraid to go because her husband had been "liquidated." She had asked the editor of a New York Russian-language newspaper for help. She was sent to Reed Farm, which the Countess ran as an asylum for Russian exiles...
...Bolt. Just what they hoped to accomplish-or how they would go about it-no one seemed to know. So far, only Alabama and Mississippi electors were pledged against Harry Truman. Other states might be persuaded to instruct their electors for the Thurmond-Wright ticket. But most office-holding Democrats would think twice before risking their federal and state patronage by aligning themselves with the irregulars. Said Arkansas' Laney pointedly: "Whatever is done must be done through and by the official Democratic organization in each respective state...