Word: benching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1833-1844), friend of Webster and Clay-and not for his later kinsman, onetime (1875-76) Governor William Gaston of Massachusetts, as stated by TIME, April 8. Carolina's Judge Gaston, for his character and learning, was elected to the bench in spite of a provision of the State Constitution then barring Roman Catholics from public office...
...this local legend are figures and inscriptions symbolizing great government. From various corners, growing architecturally out of the walls, the austere faces of great lawgivers survey the prairies-Hammurabi, Moses, Pharaoh, Solon, Solomon, the Caesars, Charlemagne, Napoleon. No carven motto is more obvious than that above the Supreme Court bench: "Eyes and ears are poor witnesses when the soul is barbarous." All of the ornament has significance and is worked into the fabric of the building. The Goodhue family are oldtime Connecticut dwellers. Architect Goodhue was born in Pomfret Hill. Not for him was the European interlude enjoyed by most...
...fill in at shortstop, Huggins bought the services of one Lynford Lary from the Oakland, Calif., club for a reported price of $75,000. Florida sunshine, however, revealed serious faults in Lary's fielding. What to do? A young man on the substitute bench, Leo Durocher, had the answer. Durocher is 23. He did not cost $75,000, nor one-tenth that much. He has been on the Yankee "Yannigan" string for several years. Huggins liked him because he was alive. When the oldtimers "rode"' Durocher he talked back. He even wrote them fresh letters...
...small iron bench in the Pincian Hill gardens slept a holy man. His breviary had fallen from his lap to the grassy turf. Children gravely gathered beside him, for it seemed to them there could be no mistaking the man's grey hair, his glasses, his still, regular features. "Is it he?" whispered one to another...
...breviary lying on the ground. In humble Roman homes it is now fully believed that the Pope's first step into the great world since his "liberation," was in the simple quality and disguise of a lowly monk and for the gentle purpose of dozing on a park bench...