Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adventures with President Harding set down in her book The President's Daughter four years ago. Miss Britton wanted $50,000 damages from Hotelman Klunk. Judge John Milton Killits, 73, who is retired but is still privileged to hear cases, first expelled the public and newshawks from the trial, later re-admitted the newshawks. At this point either he or the reporters garbled a judicial announcement which said that Miss Britton was certainly damaged, that the only thing left to prove was extent of publication. After delib- erating one hour, last week a jury which included two women returned...
Last week nine Communists were on trial in Toronto charged with "unlawful conspiracy and sedition." They jumped in their seats when their old friend "E. W. Esselwein" entered to give testimony, once more clean shaven and buttoned into the scarlet tunic of Sergeant Leonard...
...whether he is to go down through the ages in the blurry print and sedate bindings of Everyman's edition. And this morning the Vagabond will also rise to present his luminous countenance before Dr. Carpenter in Sever 7, where the creater of tired young men will go on trial...
...Nice ex-Caliph Abdul Medjid, though he sent up the engagement trial balloon, took care not to kill off his Jerusalem candidacy last week. His monocle-wearing Secretary Hussein Nakib Bey declared, "My august master. His Majesty the Caliph Abdul Medjid Effendi, constantly corresponds with the Grand Mufti of Palestine...
...give the course in an excellent and scholarly fashion without any undue obeisance to the hallowed anachronisms which characterized early Christian institutions, to say nothing of its latter day successors. Institutional religion (which, I fear me, Cuthbert confuses with Religion) has been subject to trial and error and the absurd circumlocutions of the early church fathers justly merit amusement for their logic as well as veneration for their audacity. I suggest that if liberality of approach be too much for Cuthbert he might strike his tents from the pleasances of Cambridge and set them up in Bob Jones College, Florida...