Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then up spake the erstwhile Judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, Lord Darling, a learned man famed for his ironic wit. Said...
...downright man. He is quite the Sir Anthony Absolute of the Senate?downright almost to the point of being domineering. Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway, Mr. Robinson's colleage from Arkansas, is quite a different type. His movements are slow, his manner is mild, his eyes twinkle, his wit is wicked, but he prefers to express it with a drawl rather than with a growl. And last week Senator Caraway got into a fracas. He was motoring through New York State, according to his account. His son was at the wheel. Another car, driven by a man named Clarke, bumped into...
...convicting out of court is journalistic lynch law. It is mob murder or mob ac- quittal in all but the overt act. It is mob appeal. Prosecuting attorneys now hasten to the papers with their theories and confessions. Defense attorneys do the same. Neither dare do otherwise. Half wit juries or prejudiced juries are the inevitable result...
...telegrams are worth reproduction. One from a man incomparable among his kind, who was born a wit, made a politician, and elected a Vice President...
...having said: "When a guy gets out of de jug, society don't give him a tumble.* Dey rubs de welcome off de mat. Dey tink he ought to be punished all his life. Why, dere was a guy come out of de jug only four days ago wit' ten dollars in his pocket. Nobody gives him a tumble, but he'd been tru' college and been to medical school. I asks him what he wants to do an' he says he wants to study bugs-dat's nuts-and I've just...