Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britishers, Louie is Britain's much-talked-of "little fellow," hard-pressed but phlegmatic; to U.S. readers, most of whom do not know that the strip is a British import, he is the baffled cipher* who sits on every park bench. Hanan draws Louie once a week for London's whopping (circ. 4,500,000) weekly, The People, draws him five other days a week for the people across the Atlantic...
...Polo Grounds one day, The Lip declared, with a flip of his hand: "I don't want any nice guys on my ball club. The nice guys are over there on the Giants' bench, and where are they? In last place...
...same without him.) But Leo's lip also pays off. Against the Chicago Cubs last season, the day was getting dark and Brooklyn's pitcher was weakening. As his club came to bat, still leading 2-to-0, Durocher snapped to the bench: "Listen, you guys! I'm gonna stir up a rhubarb.* He began heckling the Cubs' catcher, Mickey Livingston: "Yeah, you! Grimm never used you this year until the pennant race was over, did he? Couldn't take a chance with a bum like you when the chips were down!" Catcher Livingston headed...
...charged with conspiring to give secret information to Russia. While seven Mounties guarded the courtroom, Gouzenko testified briefly that Boyer's name had been on the list of Canadians who were helping the Russians. Then, his job done, he turned in the witness box, bowed to the Bench, walked to a door at the rear of the court and stepped out of the limelight to live in hiding under a different name. Only if the police caught two spy suspects who are still at large, needed him for testifying, would Igor Gouzenko make a brief appearance again...
...Smell of the Things." Later Churchill's hoarse voice, as he conferred with his front-bench colleagues, crashed into Sir Stafford Cripps's defense of Britain's quitting India. Cripps turned on Churchill, icily asked him to "cease talking so loudly." Sir Stafford suffered another interruption. Tory Robert Boothby broke in: "Is it in order for an honorable member to peel and eat an orange during the debate?" Solemnly the Chair ruled: "In this chamber one does not smoke, one does not chew gum, one does not eat chocolate and sweets, and one should not peel...