Word: benching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Associate Justice Van Devanter, whom Mr. Taft put on the High Bench a generation...
...public corridor, across the corridor between heavy red-plush ropes held by ununiformed attendants, the Justices pass into and through a private corridor to a door at the northeast corner of their Chamber. To and through this door they march in a peculiar order. They must sit at the bench in the order of their seniority, with juniors at the ends and seniors nearest the Chief Justice. And a march formation is required that will get each to his seat at exactly the same moment. Therefore: Nos. 1, 2 and 3 lead off, followed by 5, 7 and 9. Then...
...appearance of Gilligan in the starting lineup brings back memories of the early games last fall. Few indeed have been the athletes who came to Harvard with a reputation equal to his, yet he remained on the bench throughout the majority of last season. He is now a greatly improved player, however, and if he does not lapse back into the ways of the past, should prove a valuable cog in the Harvard offensive. Gilligan, according to reports, has given up his dashes for the sidelines in favor of following his interference. He is a rugged and shifty ball carrier...
...several breathless seconds officials could not precisely state the whereabouts of Statesman Hughes. But he was not found squashed under dazed and groggy Poland. With the quickness of an elf, little Billy Hughes had dived under the ringside bench just before the Pachyderm landed. "I've always been spry," smiled Statesman Hughes as he crawled...
Even more peculiar than the dive under the bench was the position in which Mr. Hughes found himself, last week, as he started campaigning for re-election to the Dominion Parliament. He claims to be a Nationalist (he formed the Nationalist party in 1917) and would like to run as such, but because he engineered the defeat of his personal enemy Nationalist Prime Minister Bruce last fortnight, the Nationalist Party formally refused to endorse his candidacy last week. On the other hand, although he claims he is not a member of the Laborite Opposition, the Labor Party announced last week...