Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Joliet the jury announced its verdict . . . and soon six forms will dangle on the gallows unless they are saved by further legal delay or by Gov. Len Small, crook-pardoner...
Estimate. "With the details of business the President was not intimately acquainted . . . but he had other tremendous, valuable powers. ... I have not been greatly impressed by the capacity of the practical businessman for statesmanship . . . the President was strikingly selfless . . . habitually took the long view . . . played for the verdict of history...
...production smacks its lips over the struggles of Greed, Idle Rich, Lust, Shame and the rest, to possess the dainty maiden's treasure. In the course of an artful procession of temptations, Pilgrim, after standing naked for one coy half-second, despatches Lust. The court returns a verdict of "Not Guilty" because Mother appeared in a miraculous vision to testify that homicide was justified. Finally, in accordance with parental instructions, the Pearl is bestowed upon Love...
...another generation, and finally that much of Mr. Bausman's argument has very little to do with the debt question, which is even more an economic subject than a legal one, but very much to do with fear and dislike of England. When an author can confidently anticipate the verdict of history in conferring upon four such dissimilar figrues as Hearst, Reed, Borah, and Coolidge, the rank of "statesmen," one may well pause to consider the weight of his judgment upon nations...
...score, but it was not until a Washington and Lee eleven came out of the south to deadlock the Tiger that football prophets began to wonder. The Navy sank the Princeton bark, 27 to 13, a close victory over Lehigh and a four-touchdown verdict over the Quakers from Sophomore have been the only other engagements. By the time Palmer Stadium saw the naval antics of the midshipmen, the injuries and the gloom at Princeton were at their worst. Since that day three weeks ago, much has been happening in the New Jersey town, how much no one will know...