Word: benchful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three men sat, like the Three Fates, close together on the Government bench of the House of Commons. Like the Fates, they had power to cut a thread of life-the slender diplomatic thread linking the two largest countries on the globe. The British Empire had come to the point of severing relations with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Premier Stanley Baldwin rose from where he sat between Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill. Ostensibly they were calm, Sir Austen sitting habitually erect and glacial, almost prim; and Mr. Churchill slumped...
...weekend games, Coach F. G. Mitchell will return to his arrangement of the past few weeks, with W. W. Lord '28 covering first base and batting in the cleanup position. J. P. Chase '28 in left field, and J. E. Tobin '27 again relegated to the substitutes' bench. The batting order shift of last week that interchanged Chase and W. B. Jones '28 is apparently permanent. Chase has been hitting very well since his elevation to the second place in the lineup...
Laiborite Thomas Griffiths of Pontypool (shaking his fist at the Ministerial Bench): "You wasters! . . . You blackguards! . . . You rotters! . . . You thieves! . . . Your kind put my father in jail during the big strike...
...Chase '28, who left the substitutes' bench to fill in at third base in the Wesleyan engagement, and who roamed the purliens of left field at Providence in place of Lord, shifted to the infield, batted and fielded in stellar style, and having face the pitcher only 20 times, is the possessor of a .350 average, while he has yet to be guilty of his initial bobble in the field, after accepting 18 chances. He has proved himself a slugger of parts, having included a double and a triple in the seven hits he has landed off hostile deliveries...
...must to all judges, the temptation to utter from the bench what pass for witticisms has come at last to the Right Honorable Sir Gordon Hewart, Baron Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice of England. . . . Recently (TIME, April 25) Lord Chief Justice Hewart caused the world to titter with him by awarding "two and six" to a husband who claimed damages for the loss of his wife. Last week, Baron Hewart set out to better this quip. Said he to an attorney in open court: "If the Chancellor of the Exchequer really desires an additional source of revenue, he might consider...