Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Into court before the King's Bench Division were haled last week some of Britain's greatest dailies, including Viscount Rothermere's Evening News and Baron Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Reason: the censors who snip out offending paragraphs before newsorgans can be offered for sale on British stands had failed to snip out accounts of the Constitution Hill incident in which a revolver hurtled from the hand of Jerome Bannigan and fell beneath the hoofs of King Edward's horse† (TIME, July...
...drink, he took it. He was beaten. Campaigning again on a platform "never to put a man in jail for things I do myself," he was elected in 1932 a justice of New York's Supreme Court (equivalent to a superior court of original jurisdiction). On the bench he made a record as a notable debunker of legal folderol...
...Wartime Prime Minis ter beat his chest with doubled fist and roared: "A few months ago 50 nations trusted Britain. The nations now will never trust this crowd! [gesturing at the Cabinet]. Tonight we have listened to a cowardly surrender and there on the Brit ish Government front bench are the cow ards...
...World-Telegram's editorial page one day last week appeared an open indictment of President Roosevelt for squaring "personal political obligations by saddling the Federal Bench with unknowns" nominated by Tammany and The Bronx's Boss Edward J. Flynn. The Republicans "earned a cheer for having accepted the principle of social security." James A. Farley was castigated for making "a spoilsman's happy hunting ground of the Postal Department," which in turn was felicitated in an adjoining column for "a swell job on its bonus bond deliveries." All of which indicated that in his 36 years...
...buckeye bench can recline...