"Criminal court" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... If the Censor had suppressed Hamlet, as he most certainly would have done had it been submitted to him as a new play, he would have been supported by a large body of people to whom incest is a tabooed subject which must not be mentioned on the stage or anywhere else outside a criminal court. Hamlet, Oedipus, and The Cenci, Mrs Warren's Profession, Brieux's Maternite, and Les Avaries, Maeterlinck's Monna Vanna and Mr. Granville Barker's Waste may or may not be great poems, or edifying sermons, or important documents, or charming romances: our ...
— The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet • George Bernard Shaw
... At the Central Criminal Court yesterday, John Brake, thirty-three, formerly manager of the Upper Tooting branch of the London & Home Counties Bank, Ltd., pleaded guilty to embezzling certain sums, the property ...
— The Paradise Mystery • J. S. Fletcher
... the Idiot. "What a wonder you are, Mr. Pedagog! It is a good thing you are not a justice in a criminal court." ...
— The Idiot • John Kendrick Bangs
... that in police slang "putting a man through" meant arresting him and putting him through the Criminal Court into gaol. He made the ...
— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson
... September, 1791, there are primary and secondary meetings, to renew one-half of the district and departmental administrators, to nominate the president, the public prosecutor, and the clerk of the criminal court, and to choose deputies. In November, 1791, there are primary meetings to renew one-half of the municipal council. Observe that many of these elections drag along because the voters lack experience, because the ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 2 (of 6) - The French Revolution, Volume 1 (of 3) • Hippolyte A. Taine
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