Word: shields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character. Exposures of perjured testimony for the prosecution were systematically ruled out by the judge as "incompetent," photographs of police violence were barred as evidence, pointed questions asked by the defense attorneys were overruled as often as possible, and in general every effort was made by the judge to shield the police and to intimidate and incriminate the defendants and the witnesses. In spite of these handicaps, the defense was able to refute, by means of witnesses and trenchant cross-examination, every one of the component charges that together constitute a riot according to legal definition. The defense proved that...
Bordeaux was a British city for 300 years. Its cathedral is perpendicular English Gothic. The Plantaganet lion is still on the city shield and a certain amount of British phlegm remains in the Bordelais temperament. Its shipping is crippled. Repeal has had practically no effect in relieving its wine industry. Before the War Germany bought 16 times as much Bordeaux wine as the U. S. High tariffs have cut U. S. Repeal imports far below expectations, and the German market has completely disappeared. Yet the Bordelais are not ready to revolt. Should there be elections tomorrow their chief interest would...
...seems to me that the NSL Secretary deliberately used his University connection as a shield to ward off any serious consequences that he might have had to face as a result of his cheap publicity stunt. In so doing he has dragged the rest of the University into the mud after...
...dead silence the King delivered his speech. Best came last: "The upward climb of the Italian nation . . . will not be interrupted because the Italian people, as united and solid around the shield of my house and around the sign of the Roman Fasces as never before, deserves and will have an even greater destiny." Most significant came first: "The new duties of the State cannot but lead to transformations in the constitutional order, which the Italian people have already signified they will willingly accept...
...orders with his arm. A workman sprang to a windlass operating one of the furnace doors. Eight others manned the 20-ft. handle of a big ladle, hanging from an overhead monorail. By clenching a peg between his teeth, the '"front" man kept in place a rectangular face-shield. Above the din the carrier truck screeched on the overhead rail as the ladle was trundled up to the furnace. The door swung open to a blinding glare from the inferno inside. The ladle went in. came out full to the brim with a dazzling cargo which dripped down...