Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right is Radio Starlet Florida Edwards, who won an $8,180 judgment against the Hollywood Canteen for an injury to her coccyx, suffered while dancing with a "jive-maddened" Marine. Her plight inspired Los Angeles Superior Judge Henry M. Willis to a judicial definition of "jitterbug." Said he: "The word bug is defined ... as a crazy person. The word jitter means extreme nervousness. This combination, therefore, approaches the description of one witness who said the jitterbug dance was crazy...
...pair of cultivated suicides (Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker). Nearly all the parts are well played, though as individuals and as moral and social symbols, the characters seem over-genteel, stagily conceived, dated. But Edmund Gwenn is a competently ghostly steward, Sydney Greenstreet a subtly alarming embodiment of the Last Judgment. And compared with recent bows to the Beyond-a .cheerful Chiclet like A Guy Named Joe, a quiet sniffle over the aspidistras like Happy Land, a jumbo box of mentholated Kleenex like Tender Comrade-this older mixed metaphor of death seems all but inspired...
...discontinuing Mr. Pegler's column. . . . We have spoken highly of Mr. Pegler in the past. We believed in him. We were his cosponsors. We have repeatedly applauded his exposures of crooks and racketeers. If his judgment equaled his courage he would be a great newspaper man. . . . Mr. Pegler has developed antipathies of such violence that he has allowed his feelings to overcome his reasoning power. When the disease becomes chronic, it is serious. Take, for example, the Pegler column today...
...first Supreme Court dissent: "Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great not by reason of their real importance in shaping the law of the future but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment. ... We must read the words before us as if the question were whether two small exporting grocers shall go to jail." Cried Roosevelt: "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that...
...Last Judgment. Holmes was in his 80s when people began to call him The Great Dissenter. Holmes was annoyed. How could he help dissenting,* he asked, when the Supreme Court rendered such illiberal decisions? "There is nothing," he protested, "that I more deprecate than the use of the Fourteenth Amendment ... to prevent the making of social experiments that an important part of the community desires . . . though the experiments may seem futile or even noxious...