Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Royal Gallery of the Houses of Parliament was being "renovated" for the coming trial. A woolsack was installed for Viscount Hailsham to sit upon in his capacity as Lord High Chancellor and a gilt chair from the King's robing room for use in his other capacity as Lord High Steward. For this occasion the House of Lords official known as Black Rod will carry not his usual black rod but a white rod, for the reason that after sentence is delivered the Lord High Steward must break Black Rod's white rod across...
Since the gold coronets usually worn by peers at the opening of Parliament will not do for a trial, Noble Lords were bustling anxiously about London last week trying to rent the requisite cocked hats. When all these had been rented, extortionate London hatters charged luckless lords who had to buy cocked hats $60 each. Since popular temper was rising sharply against forcing the taxpayers of Surrey to spend $50,000 in order that a peer charged with felony may receive, at most, a wrist-slapping sentence, attorneys for unpopular Lord de Clifford announced that he "cannot" waive his mandatory...
...demanding that Britain pay up for her last war before investing in another, last week dispatched to London one more gentle reminder, these being always anaswered by affirmations that, although Britain will not pay she considers her refusal " not a repudation." Borrowing this idea a German criminal on trial in London last week refused toplead either guilty or not guilty, insisted upon pleading "I do not feel guilty...
...have been brought before the highest court of the land, during the last 50 years, for treason ever menaced the country so seriously as do the chiefs of the leagues!" If the Government is not aware of these facts," concluded Old Guernut, "I will place it on trial for ignorance! If it does know them I will place it on trial for complaisance! (Applause). . . . In a civilized society, there must be only one army- that of the Nation! (tremendous applause). . . . Either our Government will change its methods or we will change the Government!" On the spot in which Pierre Laval...
...symbolized by quotations from the notes of the Wright brothers, by technical discussions of flight, by a glimpse of a young aviator awakening. These are contrasted, in a sequence whose pattern is not clear, with scenes of the horrors of modern society-a lynching, a poetic evocation of the trial of the Scottsboro Negroes. The mood of spiritual desolation expressed in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and echoed by a thousand imitators has no place or significance in this world. On the contrary, the poet gives an impression of eagerness and determination in facing the experiences...