Word: maltreatment
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...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...
...flip of a coin has given the Jungaleers the slight advantage of being the "home" team. They will occupy the Red Sox dug-out and take the field first. Superstitious Princetonians may look to this break as an omen that the Tigers will maltreat the ball in the slugging fashion of the Boston club on its recent sojourn at the Fens...
...President went to the chief hotel and delivered a short address, reviewing the history of the town. Mrs. Harding was presented with a bouquet of dahlias, each flower almost a foot in diameter. There the President became a member of the Arctic Brotherhood and took an oath never to maltreat horse...
...have lost their purpose and at once they will fall asunder. No trace will remain; those who hated most hotly will forget most quickly. Men will look one another in the face with astonishment; the spell will be broken. They simply will not believe that they could misjudge and maltreat their friends so grossly. The subtle power of our mind to forget will become mankind's blessing. As soon as peace is secured, we shall keep the peace not only by the method of enforcing it, but by the hundred better methods of making it natural. And it can become...
...committee examined Captain Hinkey, who, although averse to carrying discussions into the public press, nevertheless on account of the gravity of the unfounded charges made against him states once for all and most positively, that he did not "knee" or otherwise maltreat Wrightington in the Springfield game, and that he has never been guilty of unfair roughness in any of the games in which he has taken part. Furthermore, his statement is corroborated by the fact that although he has played for seven years at Andover and at Yale, and hence under various umpires and referees, no official has ever...