Word: bench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman's point of view; many men differ from it, but that there is such a point of view is unarguable. Besides, in the House of Commons women have proved an enormous success, and one woman, Miss Margaret Bondfield, occupies a seat on the Treasury 'bench...
Then up spake the erstwhile Judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, Lord Darling, a learned man famed for his ironic wit. Said...
...Londoner," who conducts a column, known as "Daily Causerie," in The Evening Standard. Said he: " Why not have Lloyd George introducing the people's budget in 1909 or Lord Birkenhead's first speech in Commons in 1906? Surely Miss Margaret Bondfield taking her seat on the front bench as the first woman member of the Government would-be an even better subject for painting. . . . "The whole business strikes me as a piece of preposterous vanity. On looking at the picture, I perceive some strange details in it. Lord Astor is portrayed sitting in the gallery...
...their leader, Charles E. Hughes, some 400 U. S. men of law trooped into Westminster Abbey, London, found chairs reserved for them In Poet's Corner. Though not yet offi- cially the guests of the English Bench and Bar, the visitors' presence was recognized by a sermon on Fundamentalism vs. Modernism, their native religious issue...
Equipped with these instructions, some 1,200 of the gathering rejoined their wives and children, took ship in New York for Merry England. The great Hegira, led by Charles E. Hughes, was at the cordial invitation of the Bench and Bar of England...