Word: bailiffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beneficiary can insure another person's life only if he holds an "insurable interest" or a substantial financial stake in that person's survival. A creditor can thus insure a debtor, an employer a key employee. So why not insure the litigant's "amen" when the bailiff cries, "God save this honorable court...
...convict me of robbing the bailiff, even if I have robbed the clerk," said Barshak, "would not be due proceed...
...Leader Medgar Evers, performed more like a circus clown than a defendant in a first-degree murder case. Constantly shooting his French cuffs, he propped his feet up on a nearby chair, swigged soda pop, glowered at Negro news men, hallooed to white spectators, was once restrained by a bailiff from saun tering over to the jury box to chat with his peers, and with the exaggerated Southern courtliness upon which he so much prides himself, even offered cigars to Prosecutor William L. Waller...
...raining hard on Wednesday when the trial resumed; some water began to leak through the roof and drip down next to the defense attorney's table. The little wizened bailiff brought a spittoon over to catch the increasing flow of drops...
...background, and probably far better schooling, than the anti-Shakespearean theorists usually concede. The Shakespeares were Warwickshire farmers, but Will's father, ambitious John, moved to Stratford and became a glover. He was one of the town's official aletasters, and donned the scarlet robes of high bailiff, or mayor, when Will was four. The boy presumably went to Stratford's King's School -no doubt unwillingly, since the schools of the day consisted of Latin drill, long hours (7 a.m. to 5 p.m., often longer in summer), and Spartan discipline...