Word: fitzroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrary, Mr. Speaker Edward Algernon Fitzroy of the House of Commons sits not high upon a rostrum but low in his great oak-canopied Chair, facing an oblong room richly panelled. On his right rise the Government benches, on his left the Opposition. The members may recline at full length when the House is not too full. They may wear hats (must wear them when raising a point of order during a division), may not smoke, may not drink, may not address the House in any language except English...
...sedate Speaker of the House, Captain E. A. Fitzroy started under his wig: "The right honorable gentleman knows perfectly well he must not impute motives," he rapped...