Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stroke of noon, one day last week, Chief Justice Earl Warren strode through the red velour draperies that hang behind the long mahogany bench of the U.S. Supreme Court. As the Chief Justice and his eight associates took their places, Earl Warren's broad, friendly face broke into a quick smile. He beamed at Mrs. Warren, who had arrived from California the night before and was sitting among the spectators nearest the bench. For 65 minutes the court went through routine business. But in spite of the Chief's pleasant demeanor, there was an air of tension...
Through eleven hours of argument, the nine Justices were studies in intense interest. Earl Warren, his bulk (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.) dominating the bench, sat erect in the high-back chair that had been used by the late Chief Justice Vinson (Said Warren to a court official who asked him if he wanted his own specially built chair: "Pshaw, that one's plenty good enough for me!"). Occasionally he asked a quiet question to clarify a point. Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, as if playing pizzicato violin to Warren's cello, turned and twisted in his specially...
...against segregation nevertheless maintain that each state should have the right to fix its own educational policies. In weighing such questions of law, Warren can call on wide experience as a prosecutor and administrator, but little background in private law practice, and no previous service on the bench. He was in private practice for just three years after he graduated from law school, and once admitted that court appearances terrified him. Said he: "I'd get on a streetcar, and I'd be so tense I would hope the car would be wrecked...
...William Clark has had a career without parallel on the bench, and he doesn't see why it should stop...
...knock, he took the odiously regarded job of exciseman, but gave it a Robin Hood touch: "I recorded every Defaulter, but at the Court, I myself begged off every poor body that was unable to pay, which seeming candour gave me so much implicit credit with the Hon. Bench that . . . they gave me ample vengeance on the rest...