Word: juristic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bravo! (by Edna Ferber & George S. Kaufman; produced by Max Gordon) is about a group of distinguished Middle European refugees who share a shabby Manhattan brownstone. An archduchess turned dressmaker, a Habsburg turned salesman, a jurist peddling candy, a ballet dancer spewing venom, a famous playwright and actress (Oscar Homolka & Lili Darvas) on their uppers-they are bitter and sweet, grumbling and gallant, some taking misfortune in their stride, some wearing Budapest on their sleeve. In time most of them find their mate or their metier; while those whom the immigration authorities threaten with tragedy are saved by a phone...
...Jurist Prudence. In Memphis, Judge John W. Wilson recessed court for five minutes when Juror Ewell P. Thompson announced that he had to go out and put another nickel in the parking meter...
...predict that at the Democratic National Convention labor-liberal forces will find it politically impossible to back President Truman regardless of the availability of General Ike. In this connection the Yulce Lecture Justice William Orville Douglas delivered March 22 at the University of Florida assumes extreme significance. Here a jurist brilliantly analyzed the world crisis and made quite clear how he would tackle this nation's dilemmas. His address was "political" in timing and content. Douglas himself has high political sex-appeal stemming from the frank informality of his appearance and the lusty variety of his background...
...Roscoe Pound? He is the greatest jurist in your country. It takes many centuries to produce a man like that," Chao Lung Yang, director of the department of criminal affairs of the Chinese National Government declared last night. Chao is now in Cambridge after two months of European travel and three international legal conferences...
During the fall, the portly, Keen-eyed jurist carried a heavy law schedule, beside one course in he College. He grades all examinations and term papers himself. "I do not think it is fair to my students to have assistants do the work," he said. He found his first postwar class swollen, as is the rule these days, with serious-minded veterans "much better" than those before...