Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Pennsylvania's OWEN J. ROBERTS, 76, who in 1948 became the first U.S. Supreme Court Justice ever to serve as dean of a law school after leaving the bench. A man with a phenomenal memory and a mind crammed with courtroom lore, he was a patient, polite professor ("Well, that's close to it. .." he would say when a student gave a wrong answer), in four years did more to enhance the national prestige of the law school than any other dean before...
Oxford University's Independent Member Alan Patrick Herbert turned the trick in 1935. With his back-bench seat scarcely two days warm, he bounced up brandishing a bill "to reform the indecent, hypocritical, cruel, and unjust marriage laws of this country." Said Herbert heatedly: "I swear it shall be passed before this Parliament is over...
Last week Dressen yapped a little too loudly at the umpire, was tossed out of the game (for the second time this season). Then he turned up in street clothes in a box alongside the bench, from where he could still direct the show, was chased again. Next, he turned up in the dugout disguised as an Ebbets Field groundkeeper. Chased for the third time, he was fined $100 for disobeying the umpire, happily paid it: he had impressed his win-or-bust ballplayers...
...slump which struck it last September. George Kell and Vic Wertz are the best third baseman and right fielder in the game, but only Hal Newhouser is pitching adequately. Hoot Evers, easily the best left fielder in the league last year, is hitting .133 and sitting on the bench. Johnny Lipon's fielding at short has fallen apart after a great year. Only catcher Myron Ginsberg has shown improvement...
...call the episcopal bench "a pomposity...