Word: orphaning
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...Like an orphan living around with relatives, the Supreme Court has had many a makeshift home since it first sat, with no business to transact, in the Royal Exchange, New York City, in 1790. That same year with the rest of the Government it was moved to Philadelphia where it occupied a back room on the second floor of City Hall. In 1800 it was transferred to Washington and assigned a clerk's office off the old Senate chamber in the unfinished Capitol. There John Marshall became Chief Justice. In 1810 the Court was put into the Capitol basement...
From her reputation as a satirical novelist (Potterism, Orphan Island, Staying With Relations) Rose Macaulay has fled all the way into the 17th Century, to a copiously documented historical romance of Cavalier England. Smacking more often of Aladdin's than the student's lamp. The Shadow Flies offers the reader a rich mouthful of a spicy age. Parson-Poet Robert Herrick's Devonshire parish (1640) is the first scene, with the parson cursing his parishioners by name from the pulpit, wining with his London friend Sir John Suckling, tutoring pretty young Julian Conybeare, the atheist doctor...
...Japanese Government is building a simple, square-towered Parliament not far from the low, buff-colored wooden Imperial Palace. The Diet and House of Peers meet at present in a low, dingy frame building, which "looks like an orphan asylum," according to Japanese correspondents. To this Imperial orphanage went the peers of Japan last week, some in grey silk kimonos, more in frock coats and high button shoes, to sit on stiff benches behind wooden desks and listen to a speech actually addressed to the entire world: an explanation by Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida of his country's foreign...
...Guards made of their drill. All earnest young men, perspiring in the broiling sun under immense fur busbies, the Foot Guards marched out of step and had difficulties with their bayonets while trying to execute a few simple evolutions. Up drove Premier Bennett in his glistening Stearns-Knight (an "orphan car" no longer manufactured). Up drove other delegates in official Buicks. In the House of Commons, kleig lights blazed upon the Throne, movietone cameras whirred, microphones were switched on and Lord Bessborough began to read the King's message while all delegates and spectators stood...
...Plymouth, the first buildings, the first plantings, the first Indians and their strange ways, all are materialized by Authoress Carlisle in fascinating detail. Meanwhile the struggle between John Dexter and Eleazar takes an unexpected turn. Hopeless of his brother's wife, Eleazar transfers his unholy zeal to an orphan, Purity, whom Anne has adopted on the Mayflower. His passion, countering the similar passion of John's son, David, is ended only when he violates the maid, leaves her to drown herself...