Word: gavelling
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Baldpated, urbane Judge Henry Warren Goddard rapped his gavel. The spectators filed out of the room talking and gesticulating. Banker Mitchell took his eyes off the dusty court clock, stood up. nodded to Lawyer Steuer. For five days the case was adjourned...
Next day the demonstrations became a big, grim picnic. Sandwiches, foraged from nearby restaurants, were passed around. From the county jail came coffee. Someone got hold of a gavel, used it to beat time for a song. Pinocle games started. Other groups squatted against the walls, swapped stories...
With Hauptmann Goring at the gavel, the Deputies proceeded to elect their three Vice-Speakers, were told that Socialist Paul Loebe and People's Partyman Otto Hugo had tied for the third Vice-Speakership. To break this tie the two men drew lots from a bowl. Just at that moment the official tellers announced that a recount showed there had been no tie, awarded the third Vice-Speakership to astonished Dr. Loebe who had lost the draw...
...Speaker of the House bangs out his will with a mallet-like gavel swung by the wrist and forearm. He is privileged to take the floor and join in legislative debate at will. He must vote to break a tie and may vote whenever else he chooses. As leader of the House majority he picks the legislation he wants brought up. Members speak only at his grace. During the last six days of a session his power to recognize a motion to suspend the rules makes him an absolute dictator of House procedure...
Bang! went Surrogate James A. Foley's gavel. He indignantly dismissed the Morris claim as "false and a forgery." Promptly the District Attorney had Claimant Morris jailed in default of $10,000 bail as a material witness for the Grand Jury. Claimant Morris, no intellectual giant, seemed dazed at this upshot, mumbled: "Now I don't know whether I'm John's son or not. But I wouldn't go through those court hearings again if I was positive." His public, doubting him shrewd enough to have concocted his case, waited to see what manner...