Word: bench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scurrilous newspaper (the Post), which put a terrible premium upon the social transgressions which sensational news pages did much to promote. Judge Lindsey has been a very busy man for 26 years, dealing with recalcitrant, vicious, ignorant and also foolish, reckless and genuinely happy young people. Out of minor bench in a secondary U. S. city, Judge Lindsey has made national rostrum...
...might well be. Certainly no conscientious physician in charge of a serious case will waive his judgment of the need of his patient because of the dictate of a legislature or the opinion of a bench of judges...
...weeks' recess to hand down weighty decisions; then, as they adjourned in honor of once fiery Joseph McKenna, their robes seemed to take on an even blacker shade. They were his honorary pallbearers. All of them, save the youngest (Harlan Fiske Stone), had sat on the Supreme Court bench with Justice McKenna. Impetuous, be had often vexed them. Irish, he had made them love...
Justice McKenna usually armed himself on the bench with a magnificent, reticent dignity, but in times of argument he rose like an angry emperor slashing controversy with vehement logic, scorching opponents with Voltairian sarcasm. Off the bench he was as genial as an Irish sergeant...
Slagle of Princeton sat on a bench with a blanket over him. Fortnight ago he had hurt his leg against Harvard. It was Earl Baruch, sophomore halfback, who ran with the ball, who booted it through gulfs of air, who threw the pass Dan Caulkins carried to a touchdown and who kicked the goal that beat a Yale team...