Word: arraignment
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...Utica, N. Y., one Mrs. Mae Kingsley Mullane sat up till 1:30 on a Saturday night, waited for her husband, then shot him dead with a revolver. In court, last week, she heard the judge arraign her for murder, was led to a cell where she asked for something to read. Said the Utica Observer-Dispatch: "One of the magazines she is reported to have requested is Time, a weekly magazine of current events...
...arraign the former leader before a court of justice does not correspond at all with the dignity of the German people, and even our enemy countries admit that Ludendorff was inspired solely by patriotic motives. The whole world will ridicule and jeer at Germans because of this patriotic tragedy...
...such a challenge, if not definitely expressed, was at least pretty clearly implied. So far as I have been able to find out, it was in those very articles that the idea of an intercollegiate freshman debate originated, and it now seems rather severe on the Debating Club to arraign them for an action for which the CRIMSON, by its influence, is itself partially, if not wholly responsible...
...Storey then proceeded to arraign the tariff bill in a remarkably clear, lucid, and straightforward manner. He said that the McKinley bill marks a new departure and is merely an experiment and a beginning. He then spoke on the four essential features of the bill and brought out the disingenuousness of the republican leaders. Mr. Storey devoted a long time to the discussion of sugar's being on the free list. He drew a comparison of the old and new tariff laws, said that somebody understood every line but that nobody understood the whole...
Resolved, That we brand this deed as alien in its spirit to the true standard of Yale life, and arraign its doers before the bar of public sentiment as guilty of defaming the good name of Yale...