Word: bench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factory workers, have entered the vast, rectangular Imperial Hall of Columns-white columns of pearly marble, twinkling in the radiance of a myriad crystal chandeliers. Here the Romanovs and some of their Windsor and Hohenzollern kinsfolk moved to stately music amid the white fire of diamonds. But now the bench of the Soviet Supreme Court dominates, draped with a coarse cloth, blood...
...from a government bench leaped Deputy Punica Ratchitch, a nobody. Whipping out an automatic pistol, he leveled the blue-steel barrel at the leader of the opposition. "I'm going to shoot Raditch," he cried. "I'll shoot anyone who tries to stop me!" Instantly four ranking officials of the Croat Peasant Party rushed to fling themselves between the pistol and their leader. The secretary of the party stopped the assassin's first bullet. The vice president of the party, a popular Croatian author, took the second. The third and fourth were stopped with no less honor...
...these two injunctions for good behavior, Adolph Joseph Sabath, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Chicago, has come to command a portion of fame and respect far larger than that delivered to the average man who is neither judge nor peacemaker. During his 20 years upon the bench it is claimed that he has tried more divorce suits than any other magistrate and effected more marital reconciliations. Last week, as usual, Judge Sabath's courtroom teemed with opportunities for making peace. On one day alone he found temporary remedies for two lamentable squabbles between men and wives...
...Local entanglements of politics and domesticity prevented her immediate marriage. She was compelled to wait while her two sisters ran away from their husbands, while her maiden aunt gave a despondent tirade upon the subject of celibacy and while her father was appointed, after much political turmoil, to the bench of the Supreme Court. In the meantime, she got herself elected to the state legislature, thereby annoying her prospective husband...
...received his A. B. degree after four years of academic work. He completed a course at the Law School two years later. After a distinguished legal career he was appointed chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court and the next year went to the Supreme Court bench. His term will expire...