Word: bailiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced that he was also resigning his seat in Parliament. Since outright resignation is considered a show of disloyalty to the Crown, he will follow the ancient practice of disqualifying himself by applying for a job of "honor and profit" under the Crown. This post has since 1742 been "Bailiff or Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds" - a job originally established to protect the Chiltern Hills from bandits, and which once carried the nominal salary of ?i a year. The salary, like the bailiff's duties, has long since receded into traditional fiction. Eden also turned down "for the present...
From dean's office to dormitory, people who knew Freshman John Robert Wagner at Cambridge's famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology began to wonder what had got into him. John, a good-looking, 18-year-old son of a hardworking Chicago court bailiff, came to M.I.T. with just about all the honors that Chicago's Lane Technical High School could heap on him: a place on the super-honor roll, divisional presidency of the student council, a cadet colonel's rank in R.O.T.C., and-finally-the American Legion's coveted high-school award...
Alimentary Defense. In Chillicothe, Ohio, after a judge fined him $25 for reckless driving and revoked his license for 30 days, 81-year-old William R. Lowrey grudgingly surrendered the license to a bailiff, later snatched it back and sprinted away, was hauled back before the judge and ordered to produce the license, drew two days in jail for contempt of court when he boasted...
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, kept his place while the bailiff explained who he was. "That makes no difference," snapped the judge. "Clear the court...
With the cry of the bailiff one morning last week, the jampacked courtroom in Birmingham's Federal Building fell silent, stood as Judge H. Hobart Grooms, lanky veteran of more than a quarter century of practice as a Birmingham lawyer, took his place. Beyond the closed courtroom doors, in the corridor, latecomers waited patiently, hoping for a chance at seats...