Word: benched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court's newest and youngest member, ex-SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas, 40. As Franklin Roosevelt's fourth appointee took his seat at the extreme left, he rubbed his nose, smiled at his wife and nine-year-old son, Bill Jr. Deprived while on the bench of his usual cigaret, Justice Douglas nervously twiddled a red rubber band as Justice Roberts read two momentous decisions...
Feet off kneelers [kneeling bench in the pews...
...words on the simplified spelling list, the Tribune explained: "Now it's all over. We're saying good-by to simplified spelling. We hope that no hassocs will be shied in our direction as we make our way down the aile to the mourners' bench...
...bench of revered professors was forced to judge a trying case. But it performed its task well, and its decision should turn to a newer and somewhat brighter page for Harvard's young men. If its liberalism was at one point restrained, it must nevertheless be lauded for the comparatively happy mastery of a terrible ogre...
...love of poor people and a tireless zeal in studying them. Among his sepia drawings were two that made many a visitor gulp with humanitarian rage: spots of sunlight on a wall under Brooklyn Bridge with bums standing in each spot for warmth; three old slatterns on an alley bench, one drunk and swollen, clinging to elegance with a shawl, one still sturdy and vicious. But the best things in the show were Artist Vanka's palette knife paintings, smooth, slightly van Goghish, brilliantly composed, of a Bowery poolroom, a small-time movie house, cheap restaurant...