Word: mace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merriment. Sarcastic laughter rang to the glassed ceiling. Congressmen guffawed wildly, stamped their feet in derision, mockingly applauded. The juxtaposition of the words "Senate" and "business" even brought a smile to the bland face of Speaker Nicholas Longworth as he sat in his high presiding chair with the ornate mace of office fastened to the wall at his right. It was a fine professional joke...
...horses drew it. Seated on the festooned box was the splendiferous Lord Mayor's coachman, his fat calves gleaming in pink silk stockings, a plumed tricornered hat on his head, a gaudy rosette of ribbons in his buttonhole. From one window of the coach peeped the Civic Mace, out of the other stuck the Civic Sword. Along in glory on the back seat sat Most Worshipful Sir William, his robes of scarlet, black and gold, a cocked hat on his head and his heavy chain of office round his neck. In his hand he held a bouquet of sweet smelling...
...Andrews of Providence County, resplendent in top hat, evening dress, a bright blue ribbon across his starched shirt front, a sword knocking at his side. Since 1790 this has been the Brown custom on such occasions. After the Sheriff came a faculty member bearing the university's golden mace, not so old a custom, the mace having been acquired two years ago. Dr. Barbour and Chancellor Arnold Buffum Chace came next. Close behind was Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, for without a Harvard President present, no Brown President has ever taken office. Under the U. S. and Rhode Island flags...
German citizens who expected to see the mace of Government fall upon the truculent employers like the vengeful hammer of Thor were surprised and perturbed to see that nothing of the sort happened last week. Many a legal expert opined that the State is not empowered to enforce such awards, and gratuitously added that the Ministry of Labor has put through many such in the past chiefly by might of bluff...
Still faintly resisting in dumb show, Captain Fitzroy was then led by his Conservative Nominator and Laborite Seconder, who jointly conducted him to the Chair. He was now the Speaker-Elect. The Sergeant at Arms, Admiral Sir Colin Keppel, could and did remove the enormous Mace from under its table and placed it upon the table...