Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sandwiched between two black-gowned barristers acting temporarily as judges, Sir Samuel Lowry Porter sat in his own courtroom, King's Bench No. i, not to try a criminal case, but to act as a court of inquiry in a scandal that for a time threatened last week to upset the British Cabinet...
...After all, what harm can we do when we sit a patient down on a bench and ask a lot of questions...
...pews. First organist at St. Paul's was Sara Angelina Waffle, who on severe winter days had her old-fashioned pump organ pushed up next to the stove to prevent her fingers from becoming numb. Frequently in the course of a sermon Organist Waffle would sidle off her bench to put a stick of wood on the fire...
Granted that the Filipinos brought before his bench have committed heinous crimes from a to z. That does not necessarily mean that the Filipino people by and large are criminals...
...third and fourth counts, in which Judge Ritter was charged with practicing law while on the bench, fell even shorter of the necessary two-thirds majority to convict. The fifth count, a charge of failure to report for income tax various sums received, actually produced a majority for acquittal. Still Judge Ritter did not move a muscle...