Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latest aspirant for admission to the class of 1939 is Nellie Twadzik of Webster, crack first baseman on the local Barlett High School ball team. Interviewed recently, as she sat huddled on the bench with her male associates, Nellie asserted she was "taking a business course. I'd like to play ball, but what are you going to do about a thing like that." Even if some philanthropist obligingly offers to pay her expenses through college, she insists it be Harvard or Yale plus a chance to try out for the team...
...politics. Last year Justice Stone, similarly mentioned, put his foot down. Nineteen years ago Justice Hughes refused any response to his backers until the Republican Convention had actually nominated him for President. And Mr. Roberts, looking sidewise at the bearded gentleman who now sits in the centre of the Bench, remembering Mr. Hughes' unfortunate experience, might well refuse a Republican offer. Last week he maintained dignified silence...
From the King's Bench in 1618 Lord Chief Justice Sir Henry Montagu, later the first Earl of Manchester, sentenced Sir Walter Raleigh to death. With Oliver Cromwell as his second in command, Edward Montagu, second Earl of Manchester, won the Battle of Marston Moor...
Questions. Knuckling down to cases, the nine old gentlemen on the bench began to ask questions with the amused detachment of sages from the moon. To begin with, they wanted to know all about the chicken business. Justice Sutherland was told that in "straight killing" the customer buys the contents of a crate sight unseen. If a customer wants a half crate, "you just break the box in half...
...hand fluttered gently above his head. To his vast relief the courtroom was almost empty. He sat down in the railed-in witness chair, began answering his counsel's questions in a voice so low it could be heard scarcely ten feet away. The three men on the bench leaned forward, hands cupped behind ears. Soon the news of the witness' appearance was buzzing over Pittsburgh. Spectators began to flow in. Within an hour the courtroom was jammed with citizens eager to hear Andrew William Mellon defend himself in person against the U. S. Government's charge...