Word: benching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magnets, coils and rods. "Good 'Lantic Ocean," ejaculated the neighbors, "what a contraption!" James Prince's notion was to have Dinah, the Temple's purest virgin, conceive immaculately a spiritual impulse to set the Machine working. After nine months of elaborate preparation Dinah, mesmerized on a bench beside the Machine, went through the agonies of birth...
...Supreme Court. (The first: Louis Dembitz Brandeis, at 81 the oldest Justice, who is reported thinking of retirement.) Unmarried, Benjamin Cardozo was much alone after the death in 1929 of his devoted and retiring sister, Nellie. Last December his heart forced him to leave the bench. Last April he went to the home of State Supreme Court Judge Irving Lehman (brother of New York's Governor) at Port Chester, N. Y. On his last day there, flowers came from two other old friends: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt...
This last was the respect in which the Earle law provided a parallel to the new Federal Wages-&-Hours Bill. And it was the respect in which it failed to pass the court. Including H. Edgar Barnes. Earle's appointee and the only Democrat on the bench, the seven justices ruled as though they were paraphrasing the U. S. Supreme Court's NRA opinion: that a legislature cannot legally "abdicate, transfer or delegate" its powers to an administrator...
Down the aisle dividing the men and women in the Matinecock Meeting House in Glen Cove. L. I. marched satin-gowned Florence Elizabeth Willits and Isaac Hicks Cocks. They sat down on a plain wooden bench facing 200 guests. For several minutes there was no sound in the ancient frame building. At length, when the spirit moved them, Florence Willits and Isaac Cocks rose and faced each other. The man took the girl's hand, declared he would take her for his wife. The girl repeated the pledge. Then they sat down. Thereupon everyone present signed a wedding certificate...
...park bench Widow Becker chatted with Marie Ramache Lambert, who said she was lonely and asked Widow Becker to come up some time and do some needlework. Mme Lambert made a will leaving 400,000 francs to Widow Becker, died...