Word: bailiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trust funds for herself and little Winnie, 5. One of Rockefeller's lawyers beamed at her: "You carried yourself like a trouper." Exulted one of Bobo's own lawyers: "It's wonderful . . . No hard feelings. No recriminations." Murmured a less cheery court bailiff: "The big gold rush...
Nevertheless, it was a poor show. Again and again the committee got itself snarled up in procedural difficulties. Counsel Jenkins could not seem to decide whether he was plaintiff's attorney, defendant's attorney, judge or bailiff. And McCarthy worked mightily at recasting himself as the prosecutor...
Bonnie Emily Brown Heady covered her mouth with her hand to stifle a giggle as the bailiff, at court's opening, intoned: "God save the United States and this Honorable Court." She peered around the courtroom at the twelve men in the jury box, at old (79) Judge Albert L. Reeves rocking in his chair, at the spectators and the lawyers, and finally, with tender affection, at Carl Austin Hall. Plump Bonnie Heady smiled. Hall slumped down, his eyes turned toward the floor...
Servant of the Crown. On Norfolk Island, 870 miles off the Australian coast, the inhabitants were looking for one man to be their 1) forest ranger, 2) police force, 3) bailiff, 4) jailer, 5) examiner of livestock and slaughterhouses, 6) inspector of noxious weeds...
...Some firm statements from Senators and [U.S.] publicists remind [the British] too much of the Irish landlord who wrote from London to his tenants in Connaught, 'If you think you can intimidate me by shooting my bailiff, you are much mistaken.' The English are sometimes afraid they have been tapped for bailiff...