Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter of a century Sir Horace Edmund Avory has been "The Hanging Judge" to terrified British criminals who also called him "Acid Drop." Scrawny-necked, thin-lipped, slit-eyed and fearsome on his high bench in Old Bailey, Sir Horace sent to the gallows a yearly grist of sordid British murderers and that misguided Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement. The Acid Drop also corroded Clarence Hatry, greatest of British swindlers, whose gigantic frauds unsettled confidence in The City and hastened Depression (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929). Last week Super-Swindler Hatry sat in a cell from which he may emerge...
...this coming of Death to one who had summoned Death so often, Baron Hewart gave vent to a grief Homeric. "His place can never be filled!" cried the Lord Chief Justice of England. "He will have no successor. To the English Bench it is a sad and irreparable loss, but to me it is a devastating shock! . . I am almost too overcome with tears to speak. . . . No sweeter spirit ever adorned the earth...
Last week, the annual commotion about Pitcher Dean occurred in Pittsburgh where the Cardinals were playing the Pirates. When the Pirates scored four runs in the fifth inning, Pitcher Dean and his teammate Joe Medwick came to blows in front of their bench. Accounts of how the quarrel started varied. Result: a severe reprimand and threat of a $5,000 fine for Dean; an impudent prediction by Dean that the New York Giants will win the pennant by "at least seven games...
From the front Government bench soldierly Sir Lambert Ward had hoisted himself up to plead the Government's case on a bill. In excitement he moved farther & farther out toward the centre of the hall. Suddenly came hoots of laughter and great cries of "Order! Order!" Sir Lambert looked around in bewilderment, hesitated, looked at his feet, jumped back...
...fall in commodities was aggravated by President Roosevelt's gloomy forecast that wheat might drop to 36? per bu., cotton to 5? per lb. unless the Constitution were amended (see p. 11). And general uncertainty was increased by the fact that the mourner's bench far outshouted the cheering section...