Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public prosecutor, in addressing the jury, said he saw no place for extenuating circumstances, but added: "The mother of the dead asks you, gentlemen of the jury, through me, to grant such circumstances to the murderess of her son. So grant them, but give a firm, clear and just verdict...
...jury was reported to have returned a verdict of not guilty...
...exclaims; bang! goes the book and the reader's patience. But reader, reopen! At the end of the story you will be rewarded with what is perhaps nearer nobility than any other page in the volume. Courage triumphing over infamy, a grotesque and petty nature winning its hard verdict from truth and struggling into the light at last...
...does feel, at times, that Dr. Greene rates too high the average Greek, that he might have done well to have considered H. G. Wells' pessimistic verdict on the Athenian mob. We cannot believe that all Greece was populated by Leonidases and Pericles when we know that Cleon and Alcibiades also had their day. Just so the author quotes a quotation of Galton in support of his statement that the men of Athens "developed a type of citizen whose political experience and sagacity, whose contact with life in varied occupations, and whose capacity for appreciating beauty and reason has been...
Expert equine advices took blind staggers during the week. In America, Zev and My Own were beaten by In Memoriam, a 10-to-1 shot, at Latonia; in France, Epinard, three-year-old whom the French called the "best horse in the world," lost by a head to Verdict at Newmarket; in England, Papyrus was sold by Owner Ben Irish...