Word: bench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon the Commoners were summoned to the House of Lords to hear the Speech from the Throne. Seated on a bench before the empty throne were five noble representatives of the King in ermine and scarlet, like end men at a minstrel show. In their middle, was the Lord Chancellor, Sir John Sankey. Perhaps 50 Peers in ordinary morning clothes sat comfortably on their benches. Crowded behind the Bar of the Lords stood the Commoners. Thus once a year do the Lords of Britain put the Commoners in their places...
Albert Francis Judd was a son of Dr. Judd. Following his father's example, he served King Lunalilo (1873-1874) as Attorney-General, was placed on the Supreme Court bench in 1874, was its Chief Justice from 1886 through a revolutionary period when the court acted as a balance wheel to preserve the Hawaiian Government from complete destruction...
Last week Charles A. Levine, famed air passenger, drove his automobile 60 m.p.h. at Far Rockaway, L. I., was arrested, paid a $25 fine. After receiving the fine, the judge climbed down from his bench, handshook Passenger Levine...
Five former Harvard baseball captains will be in the lineup and two more on the bench when the Alumni nine faces the Crimson ball tossers at 3 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field...
...accepted the king's invitation to form a cabinet, England will have its first labor government which is not in a minority. Even with only a coalition government the Labor Party showed a few years ago that it was able to do more than sit on the minority bench, and now that it is in a semi-independent position it will undoubtedly be able to put on a much stronger front...