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...Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye!" cried the Senate's portly Sergeant at Arms Chesley W. Jurney. "All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment, while the Senate of the United States is sitting for the trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives against Halsted L. Ritter, United States district judge for the southern district of Florida...
...Arthur Bannister's trial for murder in Dorchester was enlivened by tall, red-coated Royal Mounted Police Sergeant Bedford Peters' fainting in the witness box, as he examined the late Phillip Lake's gold teeth. Arthur was summarily convicted of murder...
...much more than a medal he received in 1922 to remind him of his feat. He may be surprised, in this screen play by Gene Fowler and W. P. Lipscomb, to learn his mission was to deliver a mysterious sealed letter; that he was aided by a swashbuckling ex-sergeant of Marines (Wallace Beery) and the lovely daughter (Barbara Stanwyck) of a Cuban patriot; that his principal antagonist was an international spy of in determinate nationality (Alan Hale); and that he was rescued from the clutches of the latter by a charge of General García's cavalry...
...Welsh coal mine, when his "buttie," an ex-soldier, held forth on the milk & honey that was India. It sounded livelier than a collier's future, so off went young Richards to enlist in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was younger than the age he gave the recruiting sergeant, but well set-up and handy with his dukes. He soon got the hang of barrack life, and was enjoying his beer and his "bit of skirt" with the best. He took his part in many a pub-brawl, many a dangerous jest. When an ignorant young officer...
Second day of the trail the name of "Ella," which had been written on the wrapper of a pound of purloined butter, roused the court from its drowsiness. Captain Fleischer, a bachelor, explained that "Ella" was only a "trademark on Army butter." Two days later Mess Sergeant John Maresca rebutted this interpretation, testified that Fleischer had specifically ordered "one of each item of the menu of Thanksgiving dinner for his lady friend, Ella." Sergeant Maresca also revealed that Fleisher had been foolhardy enough to send a ham to Major Renn Lawrence, whose complaint led to Fleischer's court-martial...