Word: garters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...introduced him to the assembled Peers. After his sponsors he quickly mumbled the Peers' oath into his beard, was glad to start back to his seat. His nervousness was so contagious that all three Lords got lost among the benches, had to be rescued by the colorful Garter King of Arms, who looks like the Jack of Hearts...
...Japan. But informal relations continue close and cordial between the first and third greatest naval Powers. Last week wise Mother England sent one of her very nicest sons?downy-lipped Henry, the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V.?to bestow the Most Noble Order of the Garter on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan...
...rite of investiture with the gold and purple Garter was neatly performed next day by the Duke of Gloucester, just below the well-turned knee of the Son of Heaven. A few hours later the Order of the Chrysanthemum was bestowed upon Prince Henry?tit for tat?by the owlishly spectacled Emperor...
...sits on the porch steps and Vincent Jones, taxi-driving son of the Second Floor Joneses, slides over beside her. '' . . . Say, sweetie, I'll give you two bucks if you'll let me snap your garter." He is overheard by Sammy Kaplan, who loves Rose. Kaplan makes a feeble attempt to attack Jones, but Vincent is far too strong, easily spins Sammy to the ground. Mrs. Jones appears. "Now Vincent, you mustn't do that...
...attended by the Sergeants at Arms shall assemble at St. James's Palace and there proceed to the balcony in Friary Court" with the six Heralds-Richmond, Windsor, Lancaster, York, Somerset and Chester†-thereupon trumpeteers sound a "fanfare" and the proclamation is first read by the Garter Principle King of Arms, at present Sir Henry Farnham Burke...