Word: mrs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...voice hardened. "Isn't it the truth that you and Gubichev never were in love? . . . Is it not the truth that just one week prior to Jan. 14 you spent the night in the Southern Hotel in Baltimore while registered with a man under the name of Mr. & Mrs. H. P. Shapiro...
Judy's ever-restless hands stopped waving. "It's a damn lie," she screamed. Little Archie was on his feet yelling his objections. From the courtroom, the voice of Judy's mother rose in a piercing wail. Judge Albert Reeves threatened to have Mrs. Rebecca Coplon removed and warned her to keep quiet. Kelley's flat voice persisted. Didn't Judy also spend the night of Jan. 8 with Shapiro in Philadelphia? Didn't she spend New Year's Eve with Shapiro "in fornication in an apartment of a friend...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy watched vigilantly as Hiss's lawyers called an elderly colored woman to the witness stand. She was Mrs. Claudie ("Clytie") Catlett, onetime Hiss housemaid. The Hisses, she testified casually, had once given her children "an old typewriter...
Excited murmuring filled the courtroom. The point was obvious: if the defense could prove that the Hisses did not even have the typewriter when the documents were typed (in the early months of 1938), Hiss's case would look fairly secure. Mrs. Catlett's young son, Mike, recalled that it was an old Woodstock. From under the defense table, Defense Lawyer Edward McLean dramatically dragged a battered machine. Was this it? Mike pecked at a couple of keys and decided that...
...crossexamination, Prosecutor Murphy went after the Catletts relentlessly. When did the Hisses give them the machine? Mrs. Catlett's memory proved vague on the point. Her son Pat placed the time at around December 1937. Shortly after he got it he had taken the machine to a shop on K Street to be repaired. Murphy roared at Pat: "What if I told you that the shop on K Street wasn't opened for business until September 1938?" Pat said finally: "I don't know the time...