Word: benchful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord Darling, who, until he retired in 1923,† was the wittiest and the most sarcastic Judge of the King's Bench, introduced a bill to regulate press reports of law cases. The bill calls for a maximum fine of $2,500 or imprisonment for three months, or both, for the publication of any indecent matter which is revealed in court. The measure is aimed particularly at divorce cases and under the proposed laws-as in France-newspapers are to be limited to publishing the purely legal aspects of the proceedings, provided, of course, that it does not violate...
...came the Democratic debacle of 1920, but it was not an Underwood debacle. He followed it by becoming one of the four* U. S. members of the Limitations of Armaments Conference. In 1922, he abandoned his place as Democratic leader. He also refused a place on the Supreme Court bench as successor to Justice...
Premier Stanley Baldwin rose from his seat on the Government bench, swept the House with his genial eyes, told it "not to get rattled." He explained that part of the increase in unemployment was due to a change in the law, and asked the House to remember that the pre-War average of emigration had fallen from 200,0000 to 130,000. The situation was black, he admitted it, but against the black spots he asked the House to put "the general and, on the whole, progressive improvement in trade that is more related to personal consumption-clothes, boots, shoes...
...Manhattan, one Henry Gettis, Negro Civil War veteran, passed the morning sitting beside the riverside tomb of General Ulysses S. Grant, removed himself later to a park in the lower part of town, decided to rest on a bench. While he sat there a laborer, one Luke Owens, 49, passed by, stopped to curse, to abuse Gettis for his idleness. When reproved, he issued a profane challenge to fisticuffs. A crowd formed. Up leapt Mr. Gettis. His old hand, rivered with dull veins, blotched along the back with great patches like distended freckles, hardened into a knot, smote the bully...
Harvard, however, will probably get a first in the shot put through the efforts of Captain Dunker. Bench of Yale will be his most dangerous opponent. The latter, though, does not specialize in the shot, but in the javelin. After establishing a new dual meet spear record against Princeton with a throw of 186 feet 6 3-8 inches, Bench received the Intercollegiate gold medal at Philadelphia. Cheek of Harvard should be able to displace the Eli's second man, Davison. The Crimson football captain elect can hurl the javelin two or three yards further than his rival