Word: saws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defense attorneys also had some definitions of their own for what they considered errors committed in Judge Medina's courtroom. As Attorney Richard Gladstein saw it, certain of the judge's remarks did not fit the Court's own definition of fairness, were prejudicial to the case. Gladstein wanted him to declare a mistrial. "I won't do it," said the judge. "If you expect me to sit here like a bump on a log you're making a big mistake...
...Burma's richest land. They had taken Mandalay, and were in control of the Irrawaddy valley; their guns ringed the capital, Rangoon. Two months ago whole regiments of Karens rose in open rebellion against the government. The tough hill tribesmen, led by a handsome ex-Rangoon lawyer, Saw Ba U Gyi, had grown tired of waiting for the infant Burma Union to grant their demand for a separate state. They planned their attack for a propitious time, and then they struck...
Though the policemen demanded a recount, General Otero was unmoved. He denied the whole incident and saw to it that his daughter was crowned. "Mexicans," he explained, "do not know how to lose." But General Otero knew how a winner should act. To appease his daughter's competitors-all princesses of the festivals-he invited them to a gala luncheon. As Moy and her princesses plunged into a week of parties, even the traffic police forgot about the squabble...
...after the Standard Oil Co.; Ray Stannard Baker, incensed at the land-grabbing railroads, wrote The Railroads on Trial; Burton J. Hendrick spilled his Story of Life Insurance. When aroused state legislatures passed laws checking the excesses of big business, and reform candidates were elected to public office, "T.R." saw the light and grinned. He called S. S. McClure's crusading muckrakers to the White House to discuss trustbusting and business regulation. By 1905, McClure's, which claimed much of the credit for selling the public on T.R.'s spectacular cleanup, had climbed to a formidable circulation...
British playgoers have never been allowed to see the complete Victoria Regina, Broadway hit of 1935-36, because some of its characters represent living royalty. They missed the Negro miracle play, The Green Pastures, because its chief character was De Lawd. Officially, they never saw Manhattan's long-running Tobacco Road because of its shady morals...