Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this swift action, the President had sidestepped in time's nick a court decision on the legality of the Government seizure. Next morning, as U.S. District Judge William H. Holly mounted his bench in Chicago, he carried a newspaper clipping in his hand. The news, he said somewhat sadly, made any decision from him unnecessary. Forthwith, he ordered all copies of his decision destroyed. His secretary told reporters, with equal sadness, that it was "a literary...
...bank accounts the district attorney finally found the name Ralph M. Wilby scratched on a paper, then scratched out again. The police went looking for Ralph M. Wilby, found him at last in Vancouver, British Columbia. In neighboring Victoria, two New York detectives finally served their man with a bench warrant, charging 17 counts of grand larceny...
Slow Growth. The Cavendish family first appeared in 1366, when Sir John, the lord of Cavendish Overhall, acquired a seat on the King's Bench. In 1530 Sir William placed a firm foundation under the family fortunes while serving as a commissioner for Henry VIII. Bluff King Hal had yet to put away Catholic Catherine of Aragon, but was already breaking up the church monasteries and preparing to establish the Protestant Church of England. A share of the extensive Catholic lands fell to Sir William Cavendish...
...Common Law, in which words like "logic," "rule," "syllogism" were replaced by such unlegal expressions as "experience," "expediency," "necessity," "life." Soon Harvard's admiring President Eliot offered Holmes a professorship of law. A year later Holmes took his seat on the Massachusetts Supreme Court Bench. "So you are the son of the celebrated Oliver Wendell Holmes?" asked an Englishman after Holmes became Massachusetts Chief Justice. "No," replied Holmes. "He was my father...
Reality. Soon Frossia had a lover. She found Michael on a park bench, weeping, starving, bareheaded, bitter, 22 years old, three years younger than herself. She fed him. "He had fed stooping over the food on the bench, eating very much in the manner of a ravenous animal. . . . Now he lifted his head, and Frossia saw a face as flawlessly chiseled as any she had ever imagined, skin and muscle clothing perfect bone work of chin, cheek and forehead. The straight thin nose, the large sherry-colored eyes ... all suggested breeding. Yet the mouth hung loosely, the eyes were twin...