Word: keppel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a Stuart King. When Sir George and Mr. Thorne made as though to lay hands on him, Speaker Fitzroy waved them back once, then walked between them while the whole House cheered to his presiding seat. From under the Speaker's Table, Sergeant-at-Arms Admiral Sir Colin Keppel produced the mighty, gleaming Mace and laid it thereon. Right glad was Sir Colin, who failed to prevent a dastard Laborite from laying hands on the sacred Mace last year (TIME, July 28, 1930), that in the General Election this naughty varlet (Laborite John Beckett) lost his seat...
...last time Sergeant-at-Arms Admiral Sir Colin Keppel had to act in an emergency (an Honorable Member was trying to carry off the Mace?TIME, July 28, 1930), his old sword caught his old legs and tripped him neatly as he tried to rise from his little wooden pew. But last week Sir Colin Keppel and his six elderly assistants in full evening dress had plenty of time. Stiff and still stood their quarry. Slowly, majestically they made at John McGovern and laid hands upon...
Fighting off Scot McGovern's friends as best they could, Sir Colin Keppel & posse dragged him inch by inch the length of his long bench, dragged him into the aisle and down the aisle, dragged him to a point within the Parliament Building where they could conscientiously say, "We have removed the Honorable Member from the House...
Groton-Stroke, Grenfell; 7, Danielson; 6, Roosevelt; 5, Clark; 4, Eyer; 3, Birge; 2, Keppel; Bow, Blagden, Cox, Prescott...
...Manhattan. Joined to honor him were the Church (Presiding Bishop James DeWolf Perry of the Protestant Episcopal Church), the Universities (Dean Christian Gauss, representing President John Grier Hibben of Princeton), Kent alumni, Kent parents & friends (including Vice President Charles W. Appleton of General Electric Co., President Frederick Paul Keppel of Carnegie Corp.). Many a guest was too old to have known, as a school boy, Father Sill's influence. But all joined, as the dinner announcement stated: In grateful recognition of twenty-five years of devoted service to his ideals: simplicity of life, self-sacrifice and directness of pur- pose...