Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve harassed Sicilians wrangled for 72 hours, last week at Termini Imerese, weighing the testimony of 500 witnesses, digesting a judge's charge which covered 6,000 legal points. The jurors finally delivered a blanket verdict: "Guilty...
...sudden, mercurial, fate-defeated Carmen. Critics could not forget that she was more Czech than Spanish, that her French was bad, that she was unfaithful to detail, that the "Habanera" should never have been sung from a wheelbarrow nor the "Sequidilla" from the garrison table. They postponed their verdict. But the mass of the audience perceiving these aesthetic errors, clapped and cheered after every act. After the last, they tossed their roses to the stage...
...hockey game which failed to rise above the level of informal play the University Seconds outplayed the inexperienced Andover sextet yesterday afternoon and left the ice with a 2 to 1 verdict...
Cincinnati Post said: "A Chicago bootlegger gets a Chicago verdict." The New York World called it "a burlesque ... a travesty ... a disgrace to the State of Ohio...
...Boardman for soloist was soso; but the splendor of the Beethoven was lost. It had slipped away between individual passages and spread into nothingness. The audience, however, was kind. Loudly it clapped the virtuosity of the 70 trim players, emphatically it approved the gesticulations of Conductor Leginska, gave the verdict common to enterprises of the gentler sex: That (for women) they had done very well...