Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talked about Poets W. H. Auden and E. E. Cummings, about modern dancing, and about vacation trips-"This time last year I was in Paris." She posed for photographers-smoothing Defense Attorney Archie Palmer's ruffled hair, adjusting the handkerchief in his suit, looking angry, looking happy, staring pensively into the distance...
...four days in Washington's Federal Court, hammy little Attorney Archie Palmer had led his client, Judith Coplon, through her intricate story. "Judy," he concluded lugubriously, "you started with the glamour of your job and ended with the dirt and degradation of a trial." Then, turning a contemptuous look on the Government lawyers, Archie announced: "Your witness, Mr. Kelley...
...afternoon recess was called, spectators in the Washington courtroom clung to their seats like grim death, eyes riveted on slim, black-haired Judith Coplon. After seven weeks of sitting by, as loud-mouthed little Defense Attorney Archie Palmer contested espionage charges against her, Judy was going to take the stand. She pushed back her chair at the defense table, walked a few feet, and knelt beside her mother, Mrs. Rebecca Coplon, a black-clad, sorrowing woman...
...Coplon bit her lips, began to twist a handkerchief. From across the room Archie Palmer rasped: "Try to smile, Mrs. Coplon." The old lady immediately burst into tears. Archie, who had a selection of throat lozenges lined up along the jury rail, picked out an orange mint and popped it contentedly into his mouth. Judy held her mother's hands. Judge and jury entered. Said Archie, over the sound of the old lady's sobbing...
...seven raucous weeks of defending black-haired, 27-year-old Judith Coplon against charges of espionage in a Washington court, loudmouthed little Attorney Archie Palmer had tried almost every lawyer's trick in the book. He almost cracked his vocal cords with protest when the Government introduced some of the contents of his client's purse-FBI "data slips" which the prosecution charged she had taken from her desk in the Justice Department to give to a Russian agent...