Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...except the defense were bewildered when Judge Dewell unexpectedly recessed the court because somebody hurt in an automobile accident was calling for the court stenographer. "No gentleman can object to this act of mercy," the judge pontificated. Still more bewildering was Judge Dewell's refusal to admit testimony that one of the defendant cops struck Shoemaker on the head with the butt of his pistol. The indictment, he pointed out, mentioned only injuries to "body and limbs." The defense did not bother to present a case. Granting a motion by the defense, Judge Dewell last week directed the completely...
...German Government," read the official text, "is ready, just as are the British & French Governments, to grant assistance to Belgium in case she should become the object of aggression or invasion. ... It confirms its determination under no circumstances to impair such inviolability & integrity and at all times to respect Belgian territory except, of course, in case of an armed conflict . . . in which Belgium should participate in military action directed against Germany...
...month brings the Soviet state closer in essence to the fascist states of Italy and Germany," Mr. Lyons of the sweated East Side remains an apostle of radicalism. "The Leninist-Trotskyist-Stalinist methods of revolution . . . when history's record is clearer," will serve, he thinks, "chiefly as an object lesson how not to make revolutions...
...hair-raising immediacy. The Movietone, Universal and Paramount photographers who made them arrived at Nanking day before the promised raid, decided to stop at the Yangtze Hotel outside, the city wall because its roof commanded a good view of the railroad station, which they expected to be the prime object of the attack. Imagine their discomfiture next day when the Japanese planes droned out of the sky and headed not for the railroad station but for the power station, 300 yd. away from the Yangtze Hotel...
France. In the winding, pleasant valley of the Loire, every year for twelve years the plow of Farmer Jean Gonon struck a hard object at the same spot. He finally dug it up, found it was a marble statue of a woman, lugged it home with difficulty since it weighed almost 200 Ib. Experts pronounced it a masterpiece of Greek art, a lush Venus probably inspired by the school of Pheidias (450-400 B.C.). The right arm is broken off at the shoulder; the left holds draperies which loop down below the belly. The legs are missing below the knees...