Word: bench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bobby who arrested Sir Basil testified: "He was violating public decency . . . sitting on a park bench with his arms around the woman's neck . . . and all that. . . . He admitted to me that he was Sir Basil Thomson and said: "If my friends find out about this I am ruined. 'If you can overlook this, I'll make it possible for you to leave the force tomorrow...
...John F. Hylan sat in the Mayor's chair?Hylan, onetime motorman on the L, which has its terminus across the square from the City Hall; Hylan, dubbed "Red Mike," with his red hair only partly dimmed from sitting several years on a Judge's bench; Hylan, whom all dailies except the Hearst papers made the butt of jokes and the target of civic invective; Hylan, from Brooklyn, who was never a Tammany man although Tammany helped him to the mayoralty twice for a total of eight years; Hylan, who himself declared that he was persecuted by the traction "interests...
Bluebeard's Seven Wives. A genial prod in the ribs of the movies, made by the movies themselves, is a healthy sign. Movies have too many times taken themselves seriously. This one is played by Ben Lyon, Lois Wilson, Blanche Sweet. The young man hops from a park bench to leading man and riches...
...light blue. In the office, a score of clerks were visible through a glass door, bending over desks and adding machines, all accoutred in blue denim smocks; behind a door marked "Private" bustled J. P. Benkard himself in a blue denim smock; and out on the runners' bench "Gunboat" Smith, onetime prizefighter, now Mr. Benkard's head runner, simpered in a blue denim smock...
What these undergraduates propose is a set of four reforms: paying coaches salaries commensurate with the salaries said professors taking coaches off the bench while games are played so that the contest will be between teams and not between coaches cutting schedules to four games and playing these games with teams in the same class and the same vicinity, to do away with "championships...