Word: mace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancient mace, used in the Provincial Court of Massachusetts in pre-Revolutionary days, will be carried into the court room of Langdell Hall tonight at 8 o'clock to officially open the semi-final arguments of the Ames competition...
First work of the new House of Commons last week was to obey a Royal command to elect their Speaker. George V's command was given by proxy in the neighboring House of Lords. Until the Speaker is elected, the Commons cannot sit as the House (with the Mace on the table) but only in committee (with the Mace under the table). In symbolic dumb show Clerk of the House Sir Horace Christian Dawkins began the time-honored mummery by taking his stand (not seat) in front of the empty Speaker's chair. The Clerk asked nomination of a Speaker...
...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...
...baton, or mace, was used by court criers in Boston during the reign of George III. It is in its original condition, painted in stripes of black, red and gold. On one side is painted an emblem of judicial significance: the head of a mace below the golden royal crown of England. On each end Judge Woolsey has placed golden plates, one signifying by whom the baton was given, and the other engraved with the name of the Law Review and the Harvard coat of arms...
Twice in three weeks has the hoary House of Commons been publicly outraged. No sooner had horrified Briton's gooseflesh subsided over Laborite John Beckett's "Rape of the Mace" (TIME, July 28) than the nation shuddered again. One Elijah Sandham, Liverpool Laborite, stood up in the House and said...