Word: maltreatment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forever a secret; if only for the reason that its defects have another side, where they reappear as peculiarities or even as virtues. We must leave those who find a pleasure in passing sweeping censures on whole nations to do so as they like. The peoples of Europe can maltreat, but happily not judge, one another...
...final courtroom scene as the hero of the piece. As in real life one of the two girl accusers, Lucy Wells (Ruth Gordon), repudiates her testimony in the first trial, makes a star witness for the defense in the second. Villains of the piece are the police who maltreat Playwright Wexley's Cookesville boys in a brutally realistic first act; the race-prejudiced crowd in the courtroom; two foul-tongued prosecuting attorneys who denounce "Jew money from New York." After listening to Lawyer Rubin's solemn summation, the jury goes off-stage to bring Playwright Wexley...