Word: bailiff
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When an overbearing Scottish bailiff tries to put an old woman's dog to death because she can't afford a license, the journalist makes an issue of it, a laughing stock of the politician, and a bride of his sympathetic daughter. The journalist is sued, enabling the plot to disentangle itself in a fast-moving, hilarious court scene. Through the failure of his plans, the father understands that men must be allowed to think for themselves, and that democracy is ultimately the only possible form of government...
...several occasions during the hearings, John Lewis had had to reassert the majesty of his person. On Wednesday, when a cameraman tried to take his picture he swung his cane and dented the cameraman's reflector. On Friday, when a bailiff had the temerity to tell him to take off his hat as he stalked back into Judge T. Alan Goldsborough's court after lunch, he simply ignored the fellow. He removed his coat, folded it with exaggerated care. When he was good & ready, he took off his large hairy black hat and sat glaring in front...
Kickback. In Chicago, Leo Zientek, eviction bailiff for 20 years, received a court order to boot himself out of his own apartment...
...Brown Keiffer Cobb, 29, LIFE editorial staffer; both for the second time; at Lake Tahoe, Nev., the same day she received her Reno divorce from Army Lieut. Mortimer Howell Cobb. The bridegroom wanted to have every step of the divorce and marriage filmed by his personal photographer, but a bailiff kicked the cameraman out of court at the divorce hearing...
...away, a bailiff cried: "Nächster Fall"-next case...