Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began drawing out sheaves of paper. There was Neville Chamberlain, who used to have the amiable boomtime duty of announcing surpluses. There was Winston Churchill, who in the years 1924-29 would accompany his budget demands with thumping gestures. And, tiny in his corner of the Liberal bench, sat snowy-haired David Lloyd George, who as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1909 introduced his epoch-making "war-against-poverty" budget. That was the budget that pitted the House of Commons against the House of Lords in a two-year struggle for power-a struggle which ended only after King George...
...captain under machine-gun fire, he discovers that the captain deliberately committed suicide in preference to looting, shooting prisoners, bombing women, children, wounded. When Nazi indifference to individuals robs him of a girl, his mind is coldly, bitterly lucid: murder comes easy. Afterwards he slumps to a park bench, a "funny little sentence" running through his head: "At the beginning of a new age, angels stand in the silent darkness-angels with dim eyes and fiery swords." He wakes to find himself covered with snow, and a child runs up crying that he is a snowman. Thinks...
...replaced by John Thomas Cahill, 36, another Corcoran familiar. Prosecutor Cahill is already famed for standing up to impressive John William Davis, the Democrats' 1924 nominee for President, in the Levy & Hahn proceedings. In Chicago, U. S. Attorney Mike Igoe had to be elevated to the district bench to make way for sharpshooting, young (36) William J. Campbell. Like...
...After that he is ready to peruse his newspaper. Sometimes he goes for a stroll about the building . . . maybe even going so far as to visit his project. ... In the afternoon he may bring in a book and read awhile until he is ready to stretch out on the bench and take a nap. . . . 'My only comment,' he said, 'would be to hell with whoever woke...
...this story was to get Joe Graham fired. Other newspapermen, almost as indignant as Joe, got him a publicity job with a small county fair near Cleveland. Last week Joe Graham paid City Hall a return visit, searched in vain for Reporter Griffin, curled up on his favorite bench and went to sleep again...