Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ritz Brothers are the heroes of the occasion, however. Every time the men on the bench jump up to follow a play they move up three places from the bottom. By the time they are sitting beside the coach he is ready to send in what he thinks is the second-string back-field. Instead it is the Ritz Brothers who prevail on the captain not to accept substitutes by offering him a large bribe. After being penalized about 40 yards for their antics on the field one of them throws a long forward pass, catches it himself and runs...
Sitting on the bench in the stuffy courtroom last week was Judge Patrick Thomas Stone, 48, regular presiding justice for the district. Appointed by President Roosevelt in 1933, he is softspoken, dignified, erect, has a reputation for scrupulous fairness. That he would tolerate no undue fuss and delay became apparent when he succeeded in getting a jury chosen on the first day, instead of allowing the week that had been estimated would be necessary. His sternness was also apparent in the first skirmish of the trial, when Prosecutor Hammond Edward Chaffetz, 30, who has been with the Department of Justice...
...front bus, sitting in the back. Ryan and Trainer Jimmy Cox sit in the next seat, then Rae Crowther, most of the team, with Russ Allen up on the front right bench. Skip Stahley sticks his head in, grins, knocks Deland's hat off. Looking out the back window at the second bus. All that can be seen is Dick Harlow on the front seat. Bolton steps in, reads the roll. Allen? "Here." Down the line to "Winter?" "You Know It." The assistant motorman closes the door. Off from in front of the Union...
...Albert L&233;vitt was again a public official by the next year, when President Roosevelt sent him to the remote Virgin Islands as a judge. When he mounted the bench Mr. L&233;vitt told native judges who led lonely lives, not to mind if he appeared snobbish. Judge L&233;vitt was soon trying to subpoena Acting Governor Robert Herrick. After that he angrily charged Provisional Governor Lawrence W. Cramer with interference in the court, wrote out his resignation. Frustrated but undaunted, Mr. L&233;vitt returned to the U. S. and his old job in the Department...
...Allen died in 1831, he was worth $30,000 and his devoted followers buried him in the churchyard. Later, his tomb was incorporated in the basement of a new church, making it a shrine near which today is a Memorial Museum containing such relics as his "mourner's bench" and his wife Sarah's reputed corset. Last week in the dining hall adjoining these holy spots, Negroes sang hymns, ate ice cream & cake at a "Grand Educational and Sesquicentennial Concert and Social." The African Methodist Episcopal Church was celebrating the 150th anniversary of its existence, which it dates...