Word: benching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since writing the above it has occurred to me that you might decide to go further into the directory business, and to save you from making another error I wish to advise you that there is a gentleman upon the Supreme bench by the name of Pierce Butler, whose home was also in Saint Paul. There is another gentleman in Washington by the name of William D. Mitchell, who is holding down the job of Solicitor General of the United States, who also hails from this village...
Motherhood, winner of $1,000, Belgian Anto Carte's study of a peasant girl sitting on a bench and holding her baby, would have been no more than a suave reiteration had its composition been less finely handled, its line less precisely firm...
When the clerk of the U. S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah, began to read the court minutes one morning last week, no one took much notice of a plain middle-fortyish woman who sat on the front bench, apparently listening. Most eyes were engaged in watching Judge Tillman Davis Johnson settle himself behind his bench for a morning's work. Judge Johnson is 69 and not undistinguished in appearance. Few of the people in the courtroom even noticed the plain lady when she rose from her seat and approached the bench with a folded magazine...
...automatic pistol from her magazine and firing two peremptory shots at Judge Johnson. The courtroom banged with noise. Splinters flew from the woodwork and a blackboard behind Judge Johnson, whose reflexes made him huddle down into his chair so suddenly that the next moment he tumbled down the bench step, though as yet unhurt...
Muttering hoarsely, the gun-woman scurried around the bench and let four more shots fly at the terrified old jurist. A bullet in the right hip knocked him down a second time. A bullet in the left thigh knocked him down a third time. A bullet grazed his knee just before bailiffs over-powered his would-be murderess...