Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Directly in front of seat No. 13 (occupied by a newshawk) Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for his life at Flemington before Justice Trenchard...
...associates helped the Solicitor General to his seat. The crowd craned their necks. The Justices stared. At length Chief Justice Hughes rose and the Justices filed out of the chamber. Mr. Reed was helped to a private room. A cup of coffee was fetched for him. After 30 minutes he went home and to bed. Next day the Department of Justice announced that Mr. Reed would plead no more in the case of Lee Moor. Instead, a Government brief would be filed with the Court...
With hundreds of years of precedents such as these before them last week, the peers, walking two by two in reverse order of precedence, solemnly entered the House of Lords, each doing his best to take a back seat. Thus the dukes, who entered last, found nothing vacant except the front seats appropriate to their topnotch status...
This question Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain left to one of his young men to answer in the negative. ¶ Observed with distaste efforts by Lady Astor, Conservative, to avoid having to give up her convenient aisle seat to Laborite "Old George" Lansbury who was propelled into it by the expansion of the Labor Party from 52 M.P.'s to 154 in the recent general election...
...Noble Lady seemed to think "Old George" a boor and intimated as much to his face. Old enough to be her father, hoary Mr. Lansbury remained seated where Fate had placed him. Next day Viscountess Astor elaborately demonstrated what a lady she is by arriving early, taking her favorite seat, and then as Old George came in, rising with a sneer "to give the gentleman my seat." ¶ Observed with further distaste efforts by Scottish Laborite Jock McGovern to make his stubborn point that members of the Royal Family, considering the size of their private incomes, are paid too much...